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Journal article
Using Virtual Reality in Biomedical Engineering Education
Journal of biomechanical engineering, v 142(11)
01 Nov 2020
PMID: 32747925
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Abstract
This study explored virtual reality (VR) as an educational tool to offer immersive and experiential learning environments to biomedical engineering (BME) students. VR and traditional two-dimensional (2D) videos were created and used to teach required communication skills to BME students' while working with clinical partners in healthcare settings. The videos of interdisciplinary teams (engineering and nursing students) tackling medical device-related problems, similar to those commonly observed in healthcare settings, were shown to BME students. Student surveys indicated that, through VR videos, they felt more immersed in real-world clinical scenarios while learning about the clinical problems, each team-member's areas of expertise, their roles and responsibilities, and how an interdisciplinary team operated collectively to solve a problem in the presented settings. Students with a prior in-person immersion experience, in the presented settings, reported VR videos to serve as a possible alternative to in-person immersion and a useful tool for their preparedness for real-world clinical immersion. We concluded that VR holds promise as an educational tool to offer simulated clinical scenarios that are effective in training BME students for interprofessional collaborations.
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- Title
- Using Virtual Reality in Biomedical Engineering Education
- Creators
- Anita Singh - Widener UniversityDawn Ferry - Widener UniversityArun Ramakrishnan - Drexel University College of Nursing and Health ProfessionsSriram Balasubramanian - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of biomechanical engineering, v 142(11)
- Publisher
- Asme
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- R25EB023857; 10.13039/100000070 / National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering (NIBIB)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems; College of Nursing and Health Professions
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000586421700010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85099995783
- Other Identifier
- 991019167606404721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Biophysics
- Engineering, Biomedical