Virtual reality as a teaching method for resuscitation training in undergraduate first year medical students: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Virtual reality is an innovative technology for medical education associated with high empirical realism. Therefore, this study compares a conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training with a Virtual Reality (VR) training aiming to demonstrate: (a) non-inferiority of the VR intervention in respect of no flow time and (b) superiority in respect of subjective learning gain.

Methods

In this controlled randomized study first year, undergraduate students were allocated in the intervention group and the control group. Fifty-six participants were randomized to the intervention group and 104 participants to the control group. The intervention group received an individual 35-min VR Basic Life Support (BLS) course and a basic skill training. The control group to

SUBMITTER: Issleib M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7851931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature