SIMPEDVR: using VR in teaching pediatric emergencies to undergraduate students—a pilot study

The objective of this work was to provide pilot data on feasibility of using virtual reality (VR) to train undergraduate students in pediatric emergency scenarios. We staged VR sessions for a total of 45 medical and nursing students; in every session, each student managed two pediatric emergency vir...

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Published in:European journal of pediatrics 2024-01, Vol.183 (1), p.499-502
Main Authors: Savino, Sandro, Mormando, Giulia, Saia, Giorgia, Da Dalt, Liviana, Chang, Todd P., Bressan, Silvia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brief Report
College students
Computer applications
Emergency medical care
Health care
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Millennials
Pediatrics
Technology assessment
Virtual reality
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Summary:The objective of this work was to provide pilot data on feasibility of using virtual reality (VR) to train undergraduate students in pediatric emergency scenarios. We staged VR sessions for a total of 45 medical and nursing students; in every session, each student managed two pediatric emergency virtual scenarios. At the end of the sessions, students completed a Technology Assessment Questionnaire to evaluate the perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use of their VR training experience and rated their perceived level of competence in managing the two clinical scenarios. The median perceived usefulness was 91.7/100 (interquartile range (IQR) 80.6–100), while the median perceived ease-of-use was 77.8/100 (IQR 63.9–88.9). The perceived level of competence increased from 2 (IQR 1–3) to 4 (IQR 3–4) on a 5-point Likert scale, for both scenarios ( p  
ISSN:1432-1076
0340-6199
1432-1076
DOI:10.1007/s00431-023-05254-z