Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Medicine - Design and Implementation of a Hybrid, Interdisciplinary Course for Engineering and Medical Students

In the winter semester 2021/22, the interdisciplinary course “Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Medicine” was offered. Here, students of medicine, medical technology, psychology as well as computer science were lectured together to merge the expertise from these fields and to promote mutual understanding. After a virtual theory phase, a practical phase took place on site. During the following hands-on phase, students collaborated in two different groups to develop an Augmented Reality (AR) and a Virtual Reality (VR) application with a medical context. After a presentation of the applications in front of an expert audience, the acquired knowledge was assessed by a written digital exam. The course was evaluated very positively by students from all fields and the good exam grades also indicate that the project was a success.