Mixed reality for teaching catheter placement to medical students: a randomized single-blinded, prospective trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cost-effective methods to facilitate practical medical education are in high demand and the "mixed-reality" (MR) technology seems suitable to provide students with instructions when learning a new practical task. To evaluate a step-by-step mixed reality (MR) guidance system for instructing a practical medical procedure, we conducted a randomized, single-blinded prospective trial on medical students learning bladder catheter placement.

Methods

We enrolled 164 medical students. Students were randomized into 2 groups and received instructions on how to perform bladder catheter placement on a male catheterization training model. One group (107 students) were given their instructions by an instructor, while the other group (57 students) were instructed via an MR guidan

SUBMITTER: Schoeb DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745503 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature