Testing Efficacy of VR in Medical Education

NCT04480489 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 19-5565
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Recent emergence and commercialization of immersive virtual reality (VR) shows great promise in its application to medical education. While the technology is rapidly developing, we don't yet know how we learn in an immersive environment. As a result, this study will investigate how medical students at the University of Toronto learn from immersive 360-degree video (i.e. VR) when compared to standard 2D video. The task to learn will be hospital (i.e. Toronto Western Hospital) navigation.

Conditions

Virtual Reality and Medical Education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Time assessment

  A research assistant will follow and time how long it takes the medical student to travel from the starting to end point.

  End of the study (2 hours)

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Distance assessment

  End of the study (2 hours)

• Number of wrong turns/wrong floors/doors entered

  End of the study (2 hours)

• Number of times student asks for help.

  End of the study (2 hours)

Other Outcomes (1)

• Student measure of satisfaction

  End of the study (2 hours)

Study Arms (2)

Group A

EXPERIMENTAL

In Group A, students will first perform Task 1 (walk from anesthesia lounge to the day surgery unit) using intervention 1 (using the virtual reality video) first, then Task 2 (walk from anesthesia lounge to the pre-operative clinic) using intervention 2 (using the traditional 2D video).

Other: VR; Other: Traditional

group B

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

In Group B, students will first perform Task 1 (follow route 1: walk from anesthesia lounge to the day surgery unit) using intervention 2 (using the traditional 2D video) first, then Task 2 (follow route 2: walk from anesthesia lounge to the pre-operative clinic) using intervention 1 (using the virtual reality video).

Other: VR; Other: Traditional

Interventions

VR OTHER

Task 1: Students will be first taken to the anesthesia lounge. Here the students will receive VR instructions on how to navigate Route 1 (i.e. they will watch a 360-degree immersive video using Samsung VR headset). Task 2: After completing the Route 1 walkthrough, the same group will be given traditional instructions (2D video) on navigating Route 2, followed by an observed walkthrough of Route 2. Students in the arm "Group A" will perform Task 1 using VR and then Task 2 using Traditional video. Meanwhile students in the arm "Group B" will perform Task 1 using Traditional video and Task 2 using VR

Group A; group B

Traditional OTHER

Task 1: Students will be first taken to the anesthesia lounge. Here the students will receive traditional instructions (2D video) on how to navigate Route 1. Task 2: After completing the Route 1 walkthrough, the same group will be given VR instructions on how to navigate Route 2, followed by an observed walkthrough of Route 2. Students in the arm "Group A" will perform Task 1 using VR and then Task 2 using Traditional video. Meanwhile students in the arm "Group B" will perform Task 1 using Traditional video and Task 2 using VR

Group A; group B

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 22 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Pre-clerkship (year 1 and 2) medical students from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.

You may not qualify if:

• Any medical students who have had experience visiting Toronto Western Hospital for personal reasons or previous coursework, shadowing, research, or clinical rotations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Health Network, Toronto: lead

Study Officials

• AHTSHAM NIAZI

  University Health Network, Toronto

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Rongyu (Cindy) Jin

CONTACT

416-603-5800 Ext. 2016; rongyu.jin@uhn.ca

Vikas Patel

CONTACT

519 702 2570; vik.patel@mail.utoronto.ca

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Prospective randomized controlled trial. Pre-clerkship (year 1 and 2) medical students from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine will be recruited to take part in the study. Participants will complete a baseline questionnaire collecting data quantifying key potentially confounding factors such as previous 360 videos, previous visits to Toronto Western Hospital, physical gait disability, and navigation experience. A 2x2 study design will be used to implement counterbalancing as a way to control for two important sources of systematic variation in this type of study: practice and boredom effects

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 17, 2020
• First Posted: July 21, 2020
• Study Start: August 28, 2020
• Primary Completion: October 2, 2020
• Study Completion: October 23, 2020
• Last Updated: July 21, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share