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CU News
19 August 2025
Featured News, Research & Innovation
Because Every Minute in the ER Matters, the Chulalongkorn University Design for Society Center (CUD4S), in collaboration with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of the Thai Red Cross Society, has launched the “ER-VIPE” (Emergency Room – Virtual Interprofessional Education), an innovative medical education tool.
Using virtual simulation technology, ER-VIPE is designed to train interprofessional teams—doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiologic technologists, and more—for handling emergency patients. The goal is to improve teamwork, communication, and patient safety while minimizing human errors.
The launch was accompanied by the academic forum “ER-VIPE: Developing Healthcare Teams for Sustainable Patient Safety” and the TeamSTEPPS Essential and IPE Virtual Simulation Workshop (Cohort 2) held on August 4, 2025, at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. The event was presided over by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chanchai Sittipunt, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the hospital.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Khuansiri Narajeenron, Director of Academic Affairs, Emergency Medicine Department, and Project Leader, described ER-VIPE as a “Med-Edutainment Technology” that merges:
This educational design offers realistic emergency scenarios to build team-based non-technical skills using the TeamSTEPPS framework (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety). It supports interprofessional collaboration (IPC) so that health professionals can communicate, make decisions, and act effectively under pressure.
“Patient care doesn’t depend on who is the most skilled—it depends on how well the team works together. Studies show that most medical errors are not due to a lack of knowledge but due to poor teamwork.” – Asst. Prof. Dr. Khuansiri Narajeenron
The ER-VIPE system allows healthcare professionals to train in a safe, virtual environment without endangering real patients. Participants receive feedback and performance analysis via digital tools.
Research findings:
Dr. Tatsawan Preedawiphat, Director of CUD4S, emphasized that design isn’t just about architecture—it’s also about systems that improve lives. ER-VIPE, as a social enterprise model, integrates healthcare, education, and technology to address systemic healthcare safety gaps.
Piloted in five hospitals, the program showed:
The event marked the first forum gathering leaders from nine major health professional organizations to discuss scaling ER-VIPE to a national health system level:
Nine participating professional organizations:
They collectively agreed that interprofessional teamwork and communication are crucial to patient safety, and fragmented systems and communication breakdowns are major causes of errors—not individual incompetence.
The panel proposed national adoption of TeamSTEPPS and Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) principles, integrated into:
They also urged the government to support policy and resources for sustainable improvement in patient care and workforce well-being.
Chulalongkorn University Design for Society (CUD4S) Tel: 0-2218-4316 Line OA: @cud4sEmail: contact@cud4s.ac.th Website: http://www.ervipe.com
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