Background
MR
Current approaches to surgical skills training commonly utilise the support of didactic video tutorials as these have been shown to effectively teach basic skills such as suturing [Mixed Reality (MR) technology offers an immersive experience in which real and virtual elements of an environment co-exist. Headsets allow multiple users to remotely link and collaboratively interact through bidirectional communication and interaction with spatially recognised 3D holographic content within the real visualised environment. This technology can therefore provide specific 3D imaging, generic dynamic physiological and anatomical models, or procedural animations to improve the learning offer, whilst also allowing remote access to educations that may widen accessibility and lower barriers to educational opportunities. The HoloLens 2 (HL2) (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA) is an untethered MR headset, and is an example of such technology. It has been successfully used across a range of educational settings including teaching ward rounds [