Immersive VR assessments of nursing and medical students are concentrated in settings that are difficult to replicate, especially emergencies¶
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q3 i? Fourteen of 26 included studies (54%) examined emergency settings, including five on pediatric emergencies and one on prehospital mass casualty triage. → Neher Andrea N. 2025
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Neher Andrea N. 2025¶
Neher Andrea N., Bühlmann Florian, Müller Martin, Berendonk Christoph, Sauter Thomas C., Birrenbach Tanja. (2025). Virtual reality for assessment in undergraduate nursing and medical education – a systematic review. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-06867-8
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Systematic review of 26 studies of HMD VR assessment in nursing and medical education. The review reports that "Fourteen studies (54%) examined emergency settings", including five on pediatric emergencies and one on prehospital mass casualty incidents.
"Fourteen studies (54%) examined emergency settings [25, 26, 28–30, 35, 45, 46], including five (19%) that focused on pediatric emergencies [11, 31, 40, 41, 47] and one on prehospital emergencies with mass casualty incidents [34]."
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