Virtual reality in curricular teaching to improve patient communication

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00034085

Enrollment

Registered

2024-09-16

Start date

2024-09-23

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Teaching method for acquiring communicative skills

Interventions

Group 1: VR group: The students complete the “Communicative Competencies” ENT seminar. This contains a lecture part and then a VR simulation is carried out with the test subjects. In this simulation,

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Students in the 2nd clinical section of their medical studies at the Albert Ludwig University who have registered for the ENT block internship in the summer semester 2024 or winter semester 2024/2025.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: On the one hand, students who have already completed the ENT block internship are excluded. Furthermore, all students who would like to carry out or have already carried out the patient interview with actors as part of the communication part of the block internship will be excluded. This is intended to enable participants to take part in the simulation unbiased and under the same conditions.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Item 18 of the questionnaire: The seminar prepared me well for a conversation with hearing-impaired patients (comparison between study and control group)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
• Item 16: I felt well prepared for the interview situation (comparison between the study and control groups). • Item 17: I was able to apply my knowledge in the conversation situation (comparison between study and control group). • Item 19: The conversation situation felt like a real patient conversation (comparison between study and control group). • Item 20: Maintaining eye contact was easy for me (comparison between study and control group). • Item 21: I can better assess my communicative skills through the conversation (comparison between the study and control groups). • Item 22: I felt safe in the conversation (comparison between study and control group). • Item 23: I value my competence in conducting conversations with patients BEFORE the training (comparison between the study and control groups). • Item 24: I value my competence in conducting conversations with patients AFTER the training (comparison between the study and control groups). • Correlation of the results of these items with results of items 1-15	—

Measure

Time frame

• Item 16: I felt well prepared for the interview situation (comparison between the study and control groups). • Item 17: I was able to apply my knowledge in the conversation situation (comparison between study and control group). • Item 19: The conversation situation felt like a real patient conversation (comparison between study and control group). • Item 20: Maintaining eye contact was easy for me (comparison between study and control group). • Item 21: I can better assess my communicative skills through the conversation (comparison between the study and control groups). • Item 22: I felt safe in the conversation (comparison between study and control group). • Item 23: I value my competence in conducting conversations with patients BEFORE the training (comparison between the study and control groups). • Item 24: I value my competence in conducting conversations with patients AFTER the training (comparison between the study and control groups). • Correlation of the results of these items with results of items 1-15

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactValentin Burkhardt

Universitätsklinikum Freiburg

valentin.burkhardt@uniklinik-freiburg.de+4976127042010

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026