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Remote Immersive Virtual Reality Teaching:

NCT05755724 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2024-08-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients in rural Canada face serious anesthesia care deficiencies relative to their counterparts in urban centers. Despite 18% of Canadians living in rural settings only 3.1% of medical specialists practice in rural areas. To provide equity in healthcare there is a need to develop a network where specialists in urban centers can provide training, coaching, and support to physicians in rural communities. Despite some work being done this is not possible for all specialists due to cost and travel. One potential solution to this problem is telesimulation, whereby telecommunication and simulation tools are used to provide training remotely. Simple, 2D telesimulation setups using webcams and computers have been used to teach remotely but problems with video displays and learner engagement have occurred leading to a need for more sophisticated telesimulation tools. Recently, virtual reality (VR) systems have been developed allowing the learner and teacher to immerse in a 3D computer-generated environment where they feel as if they are in the same room. We propose to see whether teaching ultrasound guided regional anesthesia (UGRA), a skill required by rural physicians, using 3D VR is better than teaching by 2D tele simulation.

Conditions

  • Educational Problems
  • Acute Pain

Interventions

OTHER

3-D Teaching

Telesimulation using immersive VR technology. Briefly, students will have a 360° camera mounted to their head, which will broadcast their first-person perspective to their teachers. Teachers will be able to immerse themselves in the perspective of the trainee using a virtual reality HMD (Oculus Quest 2), which allows them to look around freely and view equipment, hand movements, etc. and offer instruction accordingly.

OTHER

2-D Teaching

Telesimulation using standard teleconferencing software and equipment including 2D computer monitors, webcams, and an ultrasound machine linked to a computer (enabling ultrasound images to be transmitted).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ahtsham U Niazi, FRCPC · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-11
Primary Completion
2024-06-30
Completion
2024-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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