Badanie DREAM-VR: Czy wirtualna rzeczywistość pomaga studentom stomatologii lepiej radzić sobie w nagłych wypadkach medycznych?
The DREAM-VR Study: Does a Virtual Reality Tool Help Dental Students Master Acute Medical Emergencies Better?
W skrócie
Badanie porównuje dwie metody nauki studentów stomatologii IV roku - trening w wirtualnej rzeczywistości versus tradycyjny trening na fantomie (manekinie). Studenci będą uczyć się reagować na nagłe stany medyczne, oceniane będą ich umiejętności oraz pewność siebie w postępowaniu w kryzysowych sytuacjach. Każdy student przejdzie oba treningi po kolei - najpierw jeden przez 4 tygodnie, potem drugi przez kolejne 4 tygodnie - aby można było porównać, która metoda uczy efektywniej.
Oryginalny opis (angielski)
The goal of this prospective educational cross-over study is to compare the competency and self-reported confidence in managing acute medical emergencies in fourth year dental students at the Academic Centre for Dentistry (ACTA) after training with a Virtual Reality (VR) training tool. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Do students who were trained with the VR tool perform better or equally good as students who were trained with a traditional training, in managing acute medical emergencies?
* Do students who were trained with the VR tool score higher in self-reported confidence scores? Researchers will compare the group who trained with the VR tool with a group who received a traditional training with a mannikin to see if students from one of these methods performs better at a clinical exam in managing an acute emergency that is played by a trained actor. They will also be compared with themselves, since after 4 weeks the groups will be crossed-over and will receive the other training with different clinical scenarios.
Half of the participants will
* In week 1-4:
* Play a VR scenario and watch peer students play other VR scenario's
* Fill out a written peer-feedback form and discuss this with peers
* Fill out 3 short online questionnairs, before the training, just before the formative clinical exam and just after the formative clinical exam
* Participate in a formative clinical exam with a trained actor
* In week 5-8:
* Play a scenario with a mannikin and watch peer students play other scenario's\*
* Fill out a written peer-feedback form and discuss this with peers
* Fill out 2 short online questionnairs, just before the summative clinical exam and just after the summative clinical exam
* Participate in a summative clinical exam with a trained actor\* The other half of the participants will participate in the same protocol, but in the reverse order. They start with the traditional training with a mannikin in week 1-4 and cross-over to VR in week 5-8.
* The training program with a mannikin and the summative clinical exam is part of the regular curriculum.