Augmented Reality Simulation for Teaching Medical Students

描述（由申请人提供）：目前，医生队伍正在老化，平均工作时间与历史水平相比正在下降。此外，医生与人口的比例开始趋于平稳，预计随着美国老年人（和 更多的医疗需求）人口正在增加。因此，医生的劳动力可能无法满足美国人口的需求。虽然医学院的班级规模在增加， 医学生学习程序的质量时间引起了研究人员的关注。今天有更多的医学生比以往任何时候都需要动手，深入的培训，但面临越来越少的机会得到这样的教育。ArchieMD旨在通过开发医学生培训平台来满足这一需求，该平台结合了逼真的视觉3D计算机模型，人体模型任务培训器和增强现实设备，为培训医学生的关键临床技能提供了有效的平台。这个第二阶段项目的技术目标是将该技术扩展到几个新的临床任务，以及增加语音识别能力。一旦新的培训单元开发出来，将在一项有136名医科学生参加的试点研究中对扩大的原型进行评价。将对该技术进行评估，以确定其在提高基于这些任务的信心和知识方面的功效。 公共卫生相关性：该项目为医学生临床关键技能的有效培养提供了一种新的方法， 提高我们国家未来医生队伍的知识和能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Currently, the physician workforce is aging and average hours worked is falling compared to historical levels. In addition, the physician-to-population ratio is beginning to plateau, and is expected to decline right as the U.S. elderly (and more medically needy) population is on the rise. Thus, the physician workforce may not be able fulfill the U.S. population's demand. While medical school class size is on the rise, the amount of quality time medical students have to learn procedures has drawn concern from researchers. There are more medical students today than ever that require hands-on, in-depth training, yet face dwindling opportunities to get such an education. ArchieMD aims to answer this need by developing the Medical Student Trainer Platform, which combines realistic visual 3-D computer models, a manikin task trainer, and augmented reality devices to provide an effective platform for training medical student's key clinical skills. The technical objectives of this Phase II projet are to expand the technology to several new clinical tasks, as well as adding speech recognition capability. Once the new training modules have been developed, the expanded prototype will be evaluated during a pilot study comprising 136 medical students. The technology will be evaluated to determine its efficacy in improving confidence and knowledge based around those tasks. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This proposed project could benefit public health by providing a novel method for efficiently and effectively training medical student's key clinical skills, thus improving the knowledge and ability of our nation's future physician workforce.