The Taiwan Surgical Association, working with Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare, is adding immersive virtual reality (VR) surgical skill lessons to its FY2026 (ROC 115) programme for building surgeons' medical resilience. The programme trains surgical doctors to keep working under disaster conditions.
This year the programme newly adds 3 VR lesson plans set in chaotic disaster scenarios, such as the inside of a collapsed building and low-light environments. According to Health News, which reported on 2026-11-09, the lessons were made by a commissioned professional team and give trainees highly realistic, interactive teaching with real-time feedback.
Training purpose
The VR lessons sit alongside four newly commissioned high-definition core trauma-care teaching videos. Together they are meant to let frontline medical staff practise surgical emergency airway management, intraosseous needle placement and damage-control surgery in simulated high-pressure situations.
What comes next
The training resources produced under the programme, including the VR modules, are to be connected to the official website of the national medical-resilience preparedness plan. The source describes this connection in the future tense, so it is a plan rather than a confirmed operating service.
