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Testing Efficacy of VR in Medical Education

NCT04480489 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2020-07-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Recent emergence and commercialization of immersive virtual reality (VR) shows great promise in its application to medical education. While the technology is rapidly developing, we don't yet know how we learn in an immersive environment. As a result, this study will investigate how medical students at the University of Toronto learn from immersive 360-degree video (i.e. VR) when compared to standard 2D video. The task to learn will be hospital (i.e. Toronto Western Hospital) navigation.

Conditions

  • Virtual Reality and Medical Education

Interventions

OTHER

VR

Task 1: Students will be first taken to the anesthesia lounge. Here the students will receive VR instructions on how to navigate Route 1 (i.e. they will watch a 360-degree immersive video using Samsung VR headset). Task 2: After completing the Route 1 walkthrough, the same group will be given traditional instructions (2D video) on navigating Route 2, followed by an observed walkthrough of Route 2. Students in the arm "Group A" will perform Task 1 using VR and then Task 2 using Traditional video. Meanwhile students in the arm "Group B" will perform Task 1 using Traditional video and Task 2 using VR

OTHER

Traditional

Task 1: Students will be first taken to the anesthesia lounge. Here the students will receive traditional instructions (2D video) on how to navigate Route 1. Task 2: After completing the Route 1 walkthrough, the same group will be given VR instructions on how to navigate Route 2, followed by an observed walkthrough of Route 2. Students in the arm "Group A" will perform Task 1 using VR and then Task 2 using Traditional video. Meanwhile students in the arm "Group B" will perform Task 1 using Traditional video and Task 2 using VR

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • AHTSHAM NIAZI · University Health Network, Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
22 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-28
Primary Completion
2020-10-02
Completion
2020-10-23

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