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DAM Health create the world’s first virtual reality Covid-19 lab training syllabus

September 21, 2022
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DAM Health create the world’s first virtual reality Covid-19 lab training syllabus

One of the UK’s leading tech educators and innovators Credersi have teamed up with Covid-19 testing solutions company DAM Health to create the world’s first virtual reality Covid-19 lab training syllabus.    

The collaboration will see Liverpool-based DAM Health supporting  Manchester-based Credersi to bring technology into the lab by funding the construction of a virtual and augmented reality platform in which to train the lab technicians of the future. 

DAM Health create the world’s first virtual reality Covid-19 lab training syllabus

The first course under the new collaboration will be delivered in October of this year as a 12-week immersive programme, providing a truly unique laboratory technicians course, with components of science, data science, python programming and lab experiments built into the course syllabus. The course can be accessed from wherever the student is studying and located in the world.  

Credersi’s unique 12-week training programme not only equips students with the ‘hard’ technical skills, but also focuses on the behavioural aspects, mentoring ‘soft’ life and ‘communication’ skills to prepare them for any workplace environment.  

Credersi will utilise a physical PCR machine, which will then be used to model and render into a 3D virtual lab. This will allow the lab technicians and students to see an animated sequence of how to conduct a PCR test and use this as part of a wider training syllabus to educate the students with an immersive and interactive training module. 

The Credersi / DAM Health initiative will not only train the lab techs of the future, but the 3D virtual lab will also be taken into schools and colleges as part of a wider programme to educate and inspire children into STEM subjects using technology they relate to. It will show young people what a career in science looks and feels like, inspiring them to become the next generation of scientists and lab technicians.

DAM Health create the world’s first virtual reality Covid-19 lab training syllabus

Tech and science educators Credersi are at the forefront of redefining a world in which students and those in adult education shape their learning of the future in a virtual campus by using immersive VR and AR technologies. The company is incubating, training and developing the digital pioneers, codebreakers, vaccine developers, bio-scientists, biological and cyber defenders, software engineers and data scientists of the future.  

Andy Lord, CEO and co-founder of Credersi, said: 

“This is a really exciting project for us to team up with DAM Health and we are incredibly grateful for their support and patronage. The addition of the 3D modelling to develop a course that has elements uniquely focusing on Covid-19 and PCR is a real game changer. 

There is a huge shortage of skilled lab technicians at the moment, and we aim to address that imbalance by injecting a new army of talented and trained lab technicians.  Demand for lab technicians is outstripping supply in the market. Covid-19 testing will be with us for the foreseeable future. 

By understanding and learning about PCR testing and how this works will enable the lab technicians of the future to be better equipped to deal with future viral epidemics and pandemics. The Prime Minister could also take the current VAT charged on Covid-19 testing and re invest this into bursaries to train the next generation of lab tech students.”  

Darren  Coomer, an industry leading CIO & Founder of the tech and digital consulting firm  The Strategy & Architecture (S&A) Group  is a co-founder and tech angel behind Credersi. Commenting on the virtual reality Covid-19 training school he said:

“It has been a passion of mine to take science into schools and colleges and inspire the next generation of brilliant minds. Covid-19 has been such a big part of everyone’s lives for the last 18 months, this course will teach and train lab technicians about how PCR tests are processed in the laboratory using the latest technology. But even more amazingly, when we take this into schools and colleges, we can show young children what a career in science looks and feels like.”  

DAM Health provides a wide range of Covid testing solutions to the public, corporate organisations and the sports world with in-clinic testing. Recently it has signed major contracts with Crystal Palace football club and Rangers Football club to provide its testing services. The company has more than 65 Covid testing clinics globally with further expansion coming soon. 

Liam Spence, Head Of Partnerships for DAM Health, said:  

“We are delighted to have teamed up with Andy Lord, Darren Coomer and Credersi to help fund the next generation of scientists and lab technicians. Creating a virtual world in which lab technicians can be trained to understand the process of PCR testing makes this a truly immersive experience without the need to physically enter a lab. 

“Most importantly for DAM Health, as a leading provider of Covid testing services, our corporate and social responsibility programmes are very important to us. Our Patronage of the Credersi virtual world  lab will not only help to train the lab technicians of the future, but will also inspire school children to learn more about science and technology as an exciting career which is a fundamental part of our vision.”  

DAM Health’s two charitable initiatives include the Hope Foundation in India – which is helping to support people during the second wave of Covid and children affected by Covid – and a local initiative called Football For Change, which helps local people in Liverpool who have been affected by Covid to get jobs. 

READ MORE: DAM Health UK opens new COVID-19 testing lab in Liverpool

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