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Reviewing the current state of virtual reality integration in medical education - a scoping review.

Marvin MergenNorbert GrafMarcel Meyerheim
Published in: BMC medical education (2024)
Despite a high potential of VR in medical education, there are mandatory requirements for its integration into medical curricula addressing challenges related to finances, technical limitations, and didactic aspects. The reported lack of standardised and validated guidelines for evaluating VR training must be overcome to enable high-quality evidence for VR usage in medical education. Interdisciplinary teams of software developers, AI experts, designers, medical didactics experts and end users are required to design useful VR courses. Technical issues and compromised realism can be mitigated by further technological advancements.
Keyphrases
  • medical education
  • virtual reality
  • healthcare
  • clinical practice
  • machine learning
  • climate change