Developing of Virtual Reality Based Neurologic Examination Teaching Tool(VRNET)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the virtual reality based neurologic examination teaching tool(VRNET) for medical students. VRNET is a new teaching tool for neurologic examinations by offering different neurologic signs of the face, with which medical students can experience more realistic patients.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Medical Students
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Standard patients with VRNET; Other: standard patients

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 95
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Korea, Republic of
  • Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 03722
    • Department of emergency medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 23 years to 30 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 4th grade medical students of emergency medicine clerkship who agree with participation on this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Disagree with participation on this study.
• Who are absent the last day of clerkship.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: standardized patients with VRNET; The medical students examine the standardized patients who have neurological deficits which presented by VRNET.	Other: Standard patients with VRNET; In group of standard patients with VRNET, the medical students examine the standard patient of neurologic deficits. When they examine, they get some information of neurologic signs via the VRNET which presents neurologic deficits directly by alternating facial expressions. The students should interpret that signs to have a diagnosis.
Placebo Comparator: standardized patients; The medical students examine the standardized patients who have neurological deficits which presented by words or pictures.	Other: standard patients; In group of standard patients, those neurological deficits are presented only by words or pictures which are not realistic.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Neurologic physical exam(NPE) score	NPE score is consist of 6 neurologic examination parts; cranial nerve, motor, sensory, cerebellar function, gait. Each part has 1 points, so NPE score ranges from 0 to 6. NPE score of students is evaluated by neurologist viewing video clips which recorded during the last day of 2 weeks clerkship rotation.	after 2 weeks clinical clerkship rotation.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction of students for VRNET	Satisfaction of VRNET are evaluated by students' answer to the question below with Likert scale (0 to 5) after completion examination of standard patient. "I am satisfied with VRNET for neurologic examination training. 0 (not at all)---1----2----3-----4-----5 (very helpful)"	after 2 weeks clinical clerkship rotation.
Reality of VRNET by students	Reality of VRNET are evaluated by students' answer to the question below with Likert scale (0 to 5) after completion examination of standard patient. "VRNET is very realistic. 0 (not at all)---1----2----3-----4-----5 (very realistic)"	after 2 weeks clinical clerkship rotation.
Evaluation of students by standardized patients	Evaluation of students by standard patients is also using Likert scale (0 to 5) based on the pre-made check lists. "How do you feel as a standard patient that the student did good job?" 0 (not at all)---1----2----3-----4-----5 (very competent)	after 2 weeks clinical clerkship rotation.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yonsei University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 18, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 12, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): July 12, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 27, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 29, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): August 31, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 19, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 15, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 4-2018-0665

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No