Augmented Reality Simulation for Teaching Medical Students

描述(申请人提供)：目前，医生队伍正在老龄化，与历史水平相比，平均工作时间正在下降。此外，医生与人口的比例开始趋于平稳，预计将像美国老年人(和 更多的医疗需求)人口正在增加。因此，医生队伍可能无法满足美国人口的需求。虽然医学院的班级规模在上升，但 医学生必须学习的高质量程序引起了研究人员的关注。今天的医学生比以往任何时候都多，他们需要实践和深入的培训，但接受这样的教育的机会越来越少。ArchieMD旨在通过开发医学生训练器平台来满足这一需求，该平台结合了逼真的可视3-D计算机模型、人体任务训练器和增强现实设备，为训练医学生的关键临床技能提供了一个有效的平台。这一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。一旦开发了新的培训模块，扩展的原型将在一项由136名医学生参与的试点研究中进行评估。将对这项技术进行评估，以确定其在提高基于这些任务的信心和知识方面的有效性。

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.