Evaluation of high-fidelity and virtual reality simulation platforms for assessing fourth-year medical students' encounters with patients in need of urgent or emergent care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students in the U.S. must demonstrate urgent and emergent care competence before graduation. Urgent and emergent care competence involves recognizing, evaluating and initiating management of an unstable patient. High-fidelity (HF) simulation can improve urgent and emergent care skills, but because it is resource intense, alternative methods are needed.

Study objective

Our primary purpose was to use program evaluations to compare medical student experiences with HF and virtual reality (VR) simulations as assessment platforms for urgent and emergent care skills.

Methods

During their emergency medicine clerkship, students at The Ohio State University College of Medicine must demonstrate on HF manikins, competence in recognizing and initiating care of a

SUBMITTER: Malone M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11290289 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature