Virtual Reality Simulator Use Stimulates Medical Students' Interest in Orthopaedic Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate whether the use of a VR arthroscopic simulator can influence medical students' attitudes toward a career in orthopaedic surgery.

Methods

Twenty-five medical students completed seven unsupervised sessions on a VR hip-arthroscopic simulator. All participants completed a pre-simulator and post-simulator pseudo-anonymized questionnaire consisting of 10 questions: six 10-point Likert scale questions addressing their interest in orthopaedics, surgery, and arthroscopy; and four 5-point Likert scale questions addressing their attitudes toward simulation. Prepaired and postpaired datasets were analyzed using Wilcoxon signed rank test.

Results

Interest in both orthopaedics and surgery was found to increase after simulator use (orthopaedics: 5.3 ± .3 to 8.

SUBMITTER: Bartlett J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527266 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature