N/A Correction: (O-74) Virtual reality technology in anatomy education

Year 2018, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 158 - 158, 31.12.2018

Yasemin Topuz

Abstract

Objective:
Virtual
reality technology attracts attention as one of the innovative educational
materials. The technology has the ability to embody abstract concepts, to
animate situations that are difficult to see in reality, and to show
relationships between structures. The technology can be used as an aid to
anatomy education which is known to be a serious problem in terms of real-life experience
and is the basis of medical education. The aim of this research is to examine
the effect of using virtual reality technology as an instructional material in
anatomy education academic achievement of students, compared to
three-dimensional desktop training practice or model-based training. The
academic success of Experiment-II group using virtual reality training
simulation is significantly higher than Experiment-I group using
threedimensional desktop training material.and control group. Anatomical
structures naming skill scores of Experiment-II group using virtual reality
training simulation is significantly higher than Experiment-I group using three-dimensional
desktop training material and control group.

Methods:
The study was carried out with a full experimental model with pre - test and
post - test control groups and participants of the research are 68 students in
3rd year of Marmara University Faculty of Medicine in 2017–2018 school year.
Students were divided into three groups (Control: 22 people, Experiment-I: 23
people and Experiment-II: 23 people) according to the scores they received from
the previous anatomy committee. In order to measure academic achievement, the
Nervous System Academic Achievement Test developed by researchers and using the
KR-20 reliability coefficient of .80 and weekly practice tests were used.

Results:
According to findings in the research, it has been found that using virtual
reality training simulation in anatomy training is significantly more effective
in terms of academic achievement than both models used as current training
material and three dimensional desktop training material.

Conclusion:
As a result, it has been found that virtual reality applications are more
successful in establishing the meronymy between the structures, making the
complex subjects more concrete by embodying the contents that cannot be seen or
examined in detail, positively contributing to the education process.

Keywords

virtual reality, medicine education

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