Clinical Trial: Virtual Reality for Teaching Abscess Incision and Drainage to Medical Students

U.S., Sept. 11 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07813624) titled 'Virtual Reality for Teaching Abscess Incision and Drainage to Medical Students' on Sept. 04.

Brief Summary: This completed randomized educational trial evaluated whether virtual reality (VR)-assisted teaching improves medical students' performance in abscess incision and drainage compared with conventional teaching. A total of 120 second-year medical students were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either VR-assisted teaching or conventional teaching. Both groups received 120 minutes of instruction covering the same core learning objectives. The primary outcome was the immediate post-intervention objective structured clinical exam...