Soft skills training for healthcare students

Prepare your students for the world of healthcare with our immersive, AI-powered scenarios.

90%

of educators say Bodyswaps increases student engagement with learning communication skills
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Immersive lessons
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Communicating in a Person-Centred Way_ Getting to know each individual _ Ameera _ Hospital room

Learn human skills in a virtual world

Set your students up for success, empowering them with the confidence to tackle the human side of healthcare. With modules covering interpersonal communication, teamwork, conflict management, and more, your students can engage with realistic scenarios to build essential soft skills. And with our customisable, no-code AI roleplay templates, you can create repeatable practice scenarios tailored to your students.

Human skills for the future of healthcare with our AI-powered immersive learning platform

Navigating Angry Conversations With Patients
Equip your healthcare staff and students with the ability to handle difficult conversations with patients and their relatives.  
45 minutes
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TeamSTEPPS® Toolkit Module 1: SBAR

Equip your staff and students with a tool to effectively and carefully share patient information.

15 minutes
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TeamSTEPPS® Toolkit Module 2: Check-Back

Empower your staff and students with a gold-star standard technique for reducing risks of miscommunication.

15 minutes
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TeamSTEPPS® Toolkit Module 3: CUS

Help your staff and students feel empowered and confident when raising clinical concerns.

15 minutes
Communicating in a Person-centred Way - Getting to Know Each Individual
Enable your health and social care students to develop essential communication skills for person-centred care.
20 minutes
Communicating in a Person-centred Way - Acting With Empathy
Equip your students with the skills to understand others’ points of view and see things from their perspective.
20 minutes
Equity & Anti-racism in Global Healthcare
Enable your healthcare staff and students to explore their own implicit biases and motivations.
30 minutes
TeamSTEPPS Simulator

Empower your nurses with the TeamSTEPPS® tools for interprofessional collaboration.

25 minutes
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The Mental Health Practitioner
Learners practise speaking to a patient with acute anxiety and depression, who is having suicidal thoughts.
15 minutes

Bodyswaps’ impact on healthcare education

The numbers

After one session of our Navigating Angry Conversations module:

5x

increase in confidence to remain calm in hostile situations

84%

increase in confidence to support patient’s sense of identity to build self-esteem
In 2021, the Nursing and Midwifery Council said that we were allowed to use simulation [for some of the required 2,300 placement hours for nursing students]. Bodyswaps became an integral part of our approach, ensuring our students achieved their clinical hours while mastering critical skills in a simulated environment.
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Lucy Mottram

Principal Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University

Uncover success stories

Immersive learning for students, staff & faculty at Parker University
Discover how Parker University, Texas, have used Bodyswaps to bridge communications training for their hybrid and in-person cohorts.
Transforming communication skills training for healthcare students at University of Portsmouth
Uncover UoP’s School of Health and Care Professions journey on the Bodyswaps & Meta Research Programme.
Exploring AI simulation to enhance human skills development at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill, one of the United States’ oldest public universities, explored how Bodyswaps could enhance human skills training for their nursing students.
Piloting communicating in a person-centred way at City of Wolverhampton College
City of Wolverhampton College extended their partnership with Bodyswaps to cover their Health & Social Care students, piloting our Communicating in a Person-Centred Way modules with their students.

How do we make an impact?

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Take experiential learning to the next level
Prepare your students for their placements by providing them an opportunity to “learn by doing” in our immersive scenarios before stepping foot into the real world.
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Psychological safety
Our immersive scenarios are designed with safety in mind. By giving learners a space in which to learn, practice, and repeat without fear of judgement from others, they can feel more confident in their skill-building
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Customisable AI roleplays
Tailor AI roleplay simulations to your learners with our no-code customisation tool. Enhanced by AI-powered feedback, your learners will have a truly personalised experience.

What people say about Bodyswaps

"Students really appreciated the use of this type of simulation for communication skills training because of the psychological safety it offered them, regardless of the device they chose to use."
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Elizabeth Stone
Assistant Dean & Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"I can highly recommend it as a fantastic learning tool! I was very impressed with the quality of the information delivered, the level of interactivity and variety of teaching methods. Feedback is tailored to the individual responses. Lots of positive praise to increase confidence."
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Delia Whitworth
Health & Social Care Lecturer,City of Wolverhampton College
"One student, who’d never done VR before, was so happy with the immediacy of the learnings from Bodyswaps that they felt it was probably one of the most valuable things they’d done as a first year."
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Pauline McKeever
Associate Head Global Engagement and Educational Partnerships

Frequently asked questions

How do I deploy Bodyswaps to my learners?

There are a variety of ways to deploy Bodyswaps, depending on you and your learners' needs. We have a number of resources dedicated to assisting with deployment planning, plus our dedicated Customer Success team are on hand to help you figure out the best plan for you.

What level of learner are the modules targeted at?

Our modules are suitable for a range of learners, take a look at our library for more information on individual modules' level.

Do you need a facilitator present while a learner is using the Bodyswaps app?

Bodyswaps can be used in classroom settings with a facilitator present, but it can also be used by individual learners at home or where they feel most comfortable. Our modules are asynchronous learning experiences, giving you the flexibility to slot our modules into your teaching wherever they fit best. As long as learners have access to a phone, laptop, or VR headset, they can use us anywhere.

Does Bodyswaps integrate with Learning Management Systems?

Yes, Bodyswaps can integrate with many popular Learning Management Systems, any systems under the LTi 1.3 standard.

How long are Bodyswaps' modules?

Our modules range in length from 15-60 minutes. But each module contains checkpoints which save learner progress, meaning they don't have to complete a module all at once and can take breaks or revisit sections easily.

Who is Bodyswaps for?

Bodyswaps is suitable for a range of different institutions and learners. Discover some of our key use cases, such as Healthcare, Employability, Workforce Skills, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

Can my institution try Bodyswaps for free?

We have a range of options for trialling or piloting Bodyswaps at no cost to you. Download a free demo or get the full experience with a trial licence.

What devices do I need to use Bodyswaps?

Bodyswaps is available across a number of PC, mobile, and VR devices. Take a look at our cross-platform features for more details.

Why is it called ‘Bodyswaps’?

Many of our modules contain a "body swap" moment, where the learner swaps bodies with the virtual human they've been interacting with to watch their own performance. This encourages an enhanced level of self-reflection and perspective-taking. Read more about how this fits into our pedagogy.

What languages are the programs available in?

Our modules are primarily in English, but some have French or German subtitles. You can see which modules are in which languages by checking out our library.

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