The impact of teacher's presence on learning basic surgical tasks with virtual reality headset among medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the presence of a teacher affects learning related outcomes in teaching basic surgical tasks with a Virtual Reality (VR) headset.

Methods

26 fourth-year medical studentsparticipated in a voluntary exercise. Students practiced basic surgical procedure exercises using the VR4HEALTHCARE application in VR with OCULUS Rift S glasses. 12 students performed the exercises under the guidance of a teacher and 14 without the teacher present. After the exercise, the groups filled out a feedback form. Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0 software using the Mann-Whitney U test and multivariate analysis of variance.

Results

The most important data collected related to whether the student learned

SUBMITTER: Ojala S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature