ArticleBMC medical education2020
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor.
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- Virtual reality for patient informed consent in skull base tumors and intracranial vascular pathologies: A pilot study.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- Extended Reality-Based Head-Mounted Displays for Surgical Education: A Ten-Year Systematic Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Design and Effect of Neurosurgical Educational Software Using Gamification on Students' Learning and Motivation.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2024Article
- The Integration of 3D Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Technology as Innovative Approaches to Preoperative Planning in Neuro-Oncology.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality in Clinical Teaching and Diagnostics for Liver Surgery: Prospective Cohort Study.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2024Article
- Narrative review of patient-specific 3D visualization and reality technologies in skull base neurosurgery: enhancements in surgical training, planning, and navigation.Frontiers in surgery · 2024Review
- Enhancing educational experience through establishing a VR database in craniosynostosis: report from a single institute and systematic literature review.Frontiers in surgery · 2024Article
- 3D color multimodality fusion imaging as an augmented reality educational and surgical planning tool for extracerebral tumors.Neurosurgical review · 2023Article
- A new neuroanatomical two-dimensional fitting three-dimensional imaging techniques in neuroanatomy education.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Virtual reality and surgical oncology.Ecancermedicalscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundNeurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neurosurgical teaching. Virtual reality technology is one of the most promising surgical planning tools. It can perform fast three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other imaging data sets under conditions of virtual reality (VR). Surgical simulation can more intuitively understand the anatomical relationship of the surgical area in significantly greater detail.
methodsThirty clinical undergraduates from the class of 2016 were randomly divided into two groups: the traditional teaching group and the virtual reality teaching group. After the study concluded, the teaching effectiveness was evaluated by combining basic theoretical knowledge, case analysis and questionnaire survey methods.
resultsComparative analysis between both groups showed the response effect of the virtual reality teaching group was better than that of the traditional teaching group (P < 0.05). There was also no difference between both groups in terms of the design of the surgical approach and the listing of surgical matters that required attention (P > 0.05).The results of theoretical knowledge assessment between both groups showed that the scores of basic theory, location, adjacent structure, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and analysis, surgical methods and total scores in the VR group exceeded those in the traditional teaching group (P < 0.05).
conclusionsThis study showed that VR technology might improve neurosurgical skull base teaching quality, which should be promoted in the teaching of clinical subjects.
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