Soft skills training for healthcare professionals

Empower your staff with the confidence to navigate staff-patient conflict, work effectively in a team, and deliver person-centred care.

84%

increase in confidence to support patient’s sense of identity to build self-esteem
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Immersive lessons
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Nurse Sam + Hospital tutor room

Embed soft skills, enhance confidence

With pressures on healthcare professionals ever increasing, prepare your staff to deal with the challenges by equipping them with a new confidence in their ability to communicate, manage difficult conversations, and work with their colleagues.

Protecting your staff and improving patient outcomes 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
Increasing Immunization Confidence

Prepare your healthcare staff to engage in immunisation conversations with patients & families.

30 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
TeamSTEPPS Simulator

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

25 minutes
Equity & Anti-racism in Global Healthcare
Enable your healthcare staff and students to explore their own implicit biases and motivations.
30 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

The numbers

94%

of learners would recommend Bodyswaps
to their peers

100%

of learners identified areas to improve
on their skills

94%

increased their understanding of their skills
It very quickly became apparent that the ability to practise conversations - whether they're clinical conversations or general communication skills, in a safe space with no one else listening and no one paying attention where, if you made a mistake, you hit reset and you could start again - was amazing and it really opened people's eyes up to that.
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Liz Leggott,

Project Manager, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub

The research

Don’t just take our word for it, take a look at some independent research and case studies:
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Thomas More University Report: Immersive Virtual Reality for Soft Skills Training

Discover student and instructor perceptions of Bodyswaps in this report conducted by Thomas More University.
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Swapping perspective through VR to teach leadership, public speaking, and communication

Take a look at Meta’s infographic about the Thomas More University report on the utilisation of VR in HE.
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Jisc - National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education: A Bodyswaps Pilot Report

Learn what Jisc, teachers, and students think after trialling a range of Bodyswaps modules.
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Uncover success stories

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.
Innovating primary care training with the South Yorkshire Workforce & Training Hub
The SY Workforce & Training Hub supports a multi-disciplinary workforce, and they chose Bodyswaps as a solution which can fill gaps across a variety of programmes.
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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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.
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Learner pathway builder
Tailor a unique learning experience by combining modules, bite-sized activities, and customisable quizzes and assessments into your very own course.

What people say about Bodyswaps

"[Bodyswaps’] AI is very realistic, the script is very high quality, and I actually feel like I'm there. I feel like I gained lots of experience, but also it feels very safe that it's just between me and the AI."
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Javidul Islam
Physician Associate Preceptorship Lead & Educator, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub
"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

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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