Applying virtual reality in medical communication education: current findings and potential teaching and learning benefits of immersive virtual patients

Lok, Benjamin; Ferdig, Richard E.; Raij, Andrew; Johnsen, Kyle; Dickerson, Robert; Coutts, Jade; Stevens, Amy; Lind, D. Scott

doi:10.1007/s10055-006-0037-3

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“…Despite the fact that virtual clinical encounters have been demonstrated to be ecologically valid and psychologically compelling (Lok et al, 2006;McCall & Blascovich, 2009;Persky & Eccleston, 2011), real-world settings are more variable and could affect the patient differently.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The interaction was a clinical encounter, where the virtual doctor was an average-weight white male sitting across from the participant in a primary care-type office. Previous research suggests that experiences in virtual environments, including virtual clinical environments, are psychologically compelling and realistic (Lok et al, 2006;McCall & Blascovich, 2009;Persky & Eccleston, 2011).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Findings regarding the use of VLEs in clinical education for training generic clinical skills (e.g., communication) have predominately been reported in medicine (Bearman, 2003;Deladisma et al, 2007;Lok et al, 2006) and nursing (Foronda, Gattamorta, Snowden, & Bauman, 2014). For example, Bearman (2003) obtained valuable qualitative insights regarding the use of a VLE from the perspective of medical students.…”

Section: Virtual Learning Environmentsmentioning

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A clinical educator’s experience using a virtual patient to teach communication and interpersonal skills

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Beilby

Quail

et al. 2018

AJET

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The purpose of this study was to explore one novice clinical educator's experiences with training essential communication and interpersonal skills using a virtual patient. Over 3 weeks, the clinical educator (CE) delivered a series of half-day clinical placements to students using an educator-controlled virtual patient, depicting an older adult male with mild dementia. Students completed one 15-minute session interacting with the virtual patient in the virtual learning environment (VLE), followed by a group debrief/discussion session. Prior to, during and after delivering the clinical placements, the CE engaged in semi-structured interviews, where she was prompted to reflect on her pedagogic approach and practice. Thematic analysis revealed six themes underpinning the CE's unique narrative: pedagogical control, validation of pedagogical practice, safety in the virtual learning environment, learning pedagogical practices, self-reflection, and adult education. The CE described how being immersed in the VLE allowed her to confidently deliver training. The findings have implications for the future training of CEs who will provide clinical education using VLEs in clinic settings.

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“…Another important finding was that domain-specific knowledge and virtual human fidelity were among the key factors to affect the effectiveness of such environments. In several follow-up projects, virtual patients and standardized actors were compared with regard to accuracy of describing abnormal physical findings [6] and effectiveness of general doctor diagnosing session interactions [7], the acceptance of medical students to such virtual patients were qualitatively and quantitatively was analyzed [8], and the potential of including virtual human in medical school curriculum was evaluated [9].…”

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Assistive Learning for Hearing Impaired College Students using Mixed Reality: A Pilot Study

Luo

Han

Liu

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization

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High quality college education for hearing impaired students is a challenging task. The most common practices nowadays intensively engage specially trained instructors, inclass and after-class tutors, as well as accessible infrastructure such as speech-to-text services. Such approaches require significant manpower investments of educators, staff and volunteers, yet are still highly susceptible to quality control and wide deployment issues. With proven records in education, mixed reality has the potential to serve as a useful assistive learning technology for hearing impaired college students. However, the fundamental technical and theoretical questions for this proposed endeavor remain largely unanswered, which motivated us to conduct this pilot study to explore the feasibilities. We designed and implemented a mixed reality system that simulated in-class assistive learning, and tested it at China's largest hearing impaired higher education institute. 15 hearing impaired college students took part in the experiments and studied a subject that is not part of their regular curriculum. Results showed that the mixed reality techniques were effective for in-class assisting, with moderate side effects. As the first step, this study validated the hypothesis that mixed reality can be used as an assistive learning technology for hearing impaired college students. It also opened the avenue to our planned next phases of mixed reality research for this purpose.

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Applying virtual reality in medical communication education: current findings and potential teaching and learning benefits of immersive virtual patients

Cited by 79 publications

References 22 publications

Effects of perceived weight discrimination on willingness to adopt unhealthy behaviours: influence of genomic information

Effects of perceived weight discrimination on willingness to adopt unhealthy behaviours: influence of genomic information

A clinical educator’s experience using a virtual patient to teach communication and interpersonal skills

Assistive Learning for Hearing Impaired College Students using Mixed Reality: A Pilot Study

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