An Experimental Study On Usefulness Of Virtual Reality 360° In Undergraduate Medical Education (2019) PDF

Advances in Medical Education and Practice ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: www.tandfonline.com/journals/dame20 An Experimental Study On Usefulness Of Virtual Reality 360° In Undergraduate Medical Education Lama Sultan, Wesam Abuznadah, Hatim Al-Jifree, Muhammad Anwar Khan, Basim Al...

Advances in Medical Education and Practice ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: www.tandfonline.com/journals/dame20 An Experimental Study On Usefulness Of Virtual Reality 360° In Undergraduate Medical Education Lama Sultan, Wesam Abuznadah, Hatim Al-Jifree, Muhammad Anwar Khan, Basim Alsaywid & Faisal Ashour To cite this article: Lama Sultan, Wesam Abuznadah, Hatim Al-Jifree, Muhammad Anwar Khan, Basim Alsaywid & Faisal Ashour (2019) An Experimental Study On Usefulness Of Virtual Reality 360° In Undergraduate Medical Education, Advances in Medical Education and Practice, , 907-916, DOI: 10.2147/AMEP.S219344 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S219344 © 2019 Sultan et al. Published online: 30 Oct 2019. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 1572 View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 42 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=dame20 Advances in Medical Education and Practice Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH An Experimental Study On Usefulness Of Virtual Reality 360° In Undergraduate Medical Education This article was published in the following Dove Press journal: Advances in Medical Education and Practice Lama Sultan 1,2 Purpose: Various smartphone-based virtual reality (VR) applications allow the users to view Wesam Abuznadah 1,3 360° videos of real or simulated places. A 360° VR is captured with a special camera that Hatim Al-Jifree 1,4 simultaneously records all 360° of a scene unlike the standard video recording. An experi- Muhammad Anwar Khan 1 mental study was conducted where 4th-year medical students participated in a workshop. Patients and methods: The study was conducted at College of Medicine (COM-J), King Basim Alsaywid 1,5 Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Faisal Ashour 6 360° VR videos including, pre-briefing and debriefing sessions were held for the experi- 1 College of Medicine, King Saud bin mental group, whereas group two (control group) was provided with the interactive lecture. Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 2Clinical Nutrition A total of 169 undergraduate medical students attend the 4th year at the College of Medicine Department, Ministry of National Guard (KSAU-HS) Jeddah. Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical Results: The response rate was 88% for 169 participants, 57 (VR) and 112 (conventional City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Surgery, Ministry of National Guard method). The majority of students (93%) thought that VR can be used in medical education. Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical Post-MCQs score (out of 20) was significantly higher in the VR group, when compared to City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 4Department the conventional group (17.4+2.1 vs 15.9+2.9, p-value