Thank you for your interest in joining the VRiMS Student Section.

Short-term Objectives:

• To establish a VR Surgical Student Society with representatives from universities.

• To create an executive committee with different roles to oversee the society's activities.

• To initiate VR events and workshops at universities to raise awareness and educate students.

• To increase awareness to ER/VR/AR via mentorship schemes, teaching series, in-person workshops, conferences, talks and outreach events (internationally)

Long-term Objectives:

• To promote the use of extended reality technologies in medical and surgical education.

• To facilitate collaborative research on the benefits of extended reality in the medical field.

• To help establish the implementation of ER/VR/AR into the curriculum of medical schools, within broader aims of technological literacy in healthcare

Key Benefits for Students Involved with VRiMS:

• Exposure to state-of-the-art extended reality resources and training methods.

• Opportunities to develop leadership skills within the VR Surgical Student Society.

• Active participation in events and workshops to enhance their knowledge and skills.

• Opportunities to get involved in research with aims of presenting and publishing.

• Opportunities to assist main VRiMS team with international events.

• Opportunity to gain experience in health and med tech through a national leadership rol

Roles and Responsibilities for students involved:

• Representatives from each university will be responsible for liaising with their respective institutions.

• The executive committee will oversee society operations, event planning, and outreach.

• Students will actively participate in VR events and workshops.

Please fill out the following form if you are interested in joining. Being a member of your universities surgical society OR MedTech society is preferred but not mandatory. We are currently still looking for representatives from the following universities:

• Barts and Queen Marys

• Birmingham University

• Bristol

• Cambridge

• Cardiff

• Dundee

• Durham

• Edinburgh

• Glasgow

• Hull York

• Imperial College London

• Keele

• Angila Ruskin

• Leicester

• Liverpool

• Newcastle

• Nottingham

• Oxford

• Southampton

• Swansea

• UEA

• Warwick