Enhancing healthcare emergency management training through virtual reality simulation

Suzy Fitzgerald, Virginia Riggall and Jennifer Quevedo
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Suzy Fitzgerald: Lumeto, Canada
Virginia Riggall: Kaiser Permanente, USA
Jennifer Quevedo: Kaiser Permanente, USA

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2025, vol. 18, issue 3, 222-240

Abstract: This paper examines the challenges associated with training healthcare systems to respond effectively to rare, high-risk and complex disaster events. It explores the potential application of virtual reality (VR) simulation in healthcare emergency management training, describes a pilot education programme implemented by a large healthcare organisation for mass casualty incident (MCI) triage training using VR simulation, outlines steps to implement VR simulation into the healthcare emergency management training curriculum, and discusses possible future directions for further development and research in this area.

Keywords: virtual reality (VR); emergency management; disaster management; simulation training; healthcare emergency management training; mass casualty incident (MCI) triage training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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