Silvia Würstle, Lisa-Marie Spanke, Niklas Mehlhase, Gail Stanley, Jonathan Koff, Stavros Dimitriadis, Sarah König, Alexander Hann
OBJECTIVES: Virtual reality (VR) teaching methods have potential to support medical students acquire increasing amounts of knowledge. EVENT (Easy VR EducatioN Tool) is an open educational resource software for immersive VR environments, which is designed for use without programming skills. In this work, EVENT was used in a medical student VR course on pancreatic cancer. METHODS: Medical students were invited to participate in the course. Before and after VR simulation, participants completed a multiple-choice knowledge assessment, with a maximum score of 10, and a VR experience questionnaire...
2024: Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development