Gładysz Konrad, Szpiech Kamil, Kuś Adrian, Szypłowska Małgorzata, Neścior Małgorzata. Virtual reality – future of diagnosis, medical education and therapy. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(9):58-65. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3373900 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7313 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.08.2019. Revised: 15.08.2019. Accepted: 20.08.2019. Virtual reality – future of diagnosis, medical education and therapy Konrad Gładysz1, Kamil Szpiech1, Adrian Kuś1, Małgorzata Szypłowska1, Małgorzata Neścior1 1. Student Research Group at the Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin Supervisor: PhD Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna2 2. Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin Corresponding author: malgorzata.nescior@gmial.com Abstract Virtual reality (VR) has found a variety of applications in the biomedical field. It refers to a computer-generated, three-dimensional image of objects, space and even whole events. It is an extremely promising prospect for medicine, both in the training area and as an aid in carrying out certain procedures or diagnostic processes. The number of conducted research and great interest of scientists in this subject indicates that in the future it will be one of the basic tools of medical personnel in diagnostic processes and therapy. It could be also helpful addition to increase education quality of medical students and specialization education. VR increased the safety of surgical training and has significantly improved it, creating completely new possibilities of imaging complex structures during operations and extending the possibilities of already existing imaging examinations. What is important, VR can be successfully adapted for use by specialists from various, often extremely different medical fields. This article describes the use of virtual reality (both VR and AR technologies) in medical training, procedures and diagnostics. Key words: virtual reality (VR); education; augmented reality; computer simulation; computing methodologies