Marvin Mergen, Anna Junga, Benjamin Risse, Dimitar Valkov, Norbert Graf, Bernhard Marschall
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Abstract
Background: Medical students need to be prepared for various situations in clinical decision-making that cannot be systematically trained with real patients without risking their health or integrity. To target system-related limitations of actor-based training, digital learning methods are increasingly used in medical education, with virtual reality (VR)- training seeming to have high potential. Virtually generated training scenarios allow repetitive training of highly relevant clinical skills within a protected, realistic learning environment. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), face-to-face interaction with virtual agents is feasible. Combining this technology with VR-simulations offers a new way of situated context-based, first-person training for medical students.
Project goal and method: The authors' aim is to develop a modular digital training platform for medical education with virtual, interactable agents and to integrate this platform into the medical curriculum. The medical tr.AI.ning platform will provide veridical simulation of clinical scenarios with virtual patients, augmented with highly realistic medical pathologies within a customizable, realistic situational context. Medical tr.AI.ning is scaled to four complementary developmental steps with different scenarios that can be used separately and so each outcome can successively be integrated early within the project. Every step has its own focus (visual, movement, communication, combination) and extends an author toolbox through its modularity. The modules of each step will be specified and designed together with medical didactics experts.
Perspective: To ensure constant improvement of user experience, realism, and medical validity, the authors will perform regular iterative evaluation rounds.Furthermore, integration of medical tr.AI.ning into the medical curriculum will enable long-term and large-scale detection of benefits and limitations of this approach, providing enhanced alternative teaching paradigms for VR technology.
期刊介绍:
GMS Journal for Medical Education (GMS J Med Educ) – formerly GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung – publishes scientific articles on all aspects of undergraduate and graduate education in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and other health professions. Research and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted. There is a special focus on empirical studies which are methodologically sound and lead to results that are relevant beyond the respective institution, profession or country. Please feel free to submit qualitative as well as quantitative studies. We especially welcome submissions by students. It is the mission of GMS Journal for Medical Education to contribute to furthering scientific knowledge in the German-speaking countries as well as internationally and thus to foster the improvement of teaching and learning and to build an evidence base for undergraduate and graduate education. To this end, the journal has set up an editorial board with international experts. All manuscripts submitted are subjected to a clearly structured peer review process. All articles are published bilingually in English and German and are available with unrestricted open access. Thus, GMS Journal for Medical Education is available to a broad international readership. GMS Journal for Medical Education is published as an unrestricted open access journal with at least four issues per year. In addition, special issues on current topics in medical education research are also published. Until 2015 the journal was published under its German name GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung. By changing its name to GMS Journal for Medical Education, we wish to underline our international mission.