Pre-graduation medical training including virtual reality during COVID-19 pandemic: a report on students' perception.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic brought significant disruption to in-hospital medical training. Virtual reality simulating the clinical environment has the potential to overcome this issue and can be particularly useful to supplement the traditional in-hospital medical training during the COVID-19 pandemic, when hospital access is banned for medical students. The aim of this study was to assess medical students' perception on fully online training including simulated clinical scenarios during COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

From May to July 2020 when in-hospital training was not possible, 122 students attending the sixth year of the course of Medicine and Surgery underwent online training sessions including an online platform with simulated clinical scen

SUBMITTER: De Ponti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7517753 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature