In a healthcare context, the success of a fire safety procedure in a real-life emergency mainly depends on staff decisions and actions. One of the factors influencing staff decision-making is their training. In most healthcare facilities, safety educators use slide-based lectures as a training tool. Virtual Reality (VR) is gaining fire safety community attention for being an interesting training tool. However, few studies have assessed the effectiveness of VR-based fire safety training simulators compared with a slide-based lecture. The present research proposes a novel non-immersive VR-based training for healthcare fire safety education. This paper describes the prototyping steps required to develop a non-immersive VR serious game (SG) to train the staff of Vincent Van Gogh (VVG) hospital in Belgium. The paper finally validates the VR SG comparing its effectiveness against slide-based lecture training. 78 staff from VVG hospital in Belgium participated in this study. They were divided into two groups: Group A was trained using a slide-based lecture, and Group B was trained using the VR SG. The results indicated that the VR SG was more effective than the slide-based lecture in terms of knowledge acquisition and retention and in terms of self-efficacy increment in short and long terms than the slide-based lecture.

在医疗保健方面，现实生活中紧急情况下消防安全程序的成功主要取决于员工的决策和行动。影响员工决策的因素之一是员工的培训。在大多数医疗机构中，安全教育工作者将基于幻灯片的讲座用作培训工具。虚拟现实（VR）作为一种有趣的培训工具，正在引起消防​​安全界的关注。但是，与基于幻灯片的讲座相比，很少有研究评估基于VR的消防培训模拟器的有效性。本研究提出了一种新颖的基于非沉浸式VR的医疗防火教育培训。本文介绍了开发非沉浸式VR严肃游戏（SG）来培训比利时Vincent Van Gogh（VVG）医院工作人员所需的原型步骤。本文最后通过将VR SG与基于幻灯片的讲义培训进行比较，验证了VR SG的有效性。比利时VVG医院的78名员工参加了这项研究。他们分为两组：A组使用基于幻灯片的讲座进行培训，B组使用VR SG进行培训。结果表明，VR SG在基于知识的获取和保留以及短期和长期的自我效能提升方面比基于幻灯片的讲授要比基于幻灯片的讲授更加有效。