Impact of the Virtual Human Project on Team-based Learning: A Randomized-controlled Trial

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Leprosy

Treatments: Device: The Virtual Human Project

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02484469

001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Team-based learning (TBL) is a learner-centered, instructor-directed strategy for small group active learning in large group educational settings. When TBL is conducted correctly, the students' performances are equivalent or improved in comparison to either lecture-based formats or more traditional small group learning models.1 Nevertheless, few studies have been published regarding the insertion of innovative audiovisual tools in the TBL context. The Virtual Human Project is described as powerful sequences of three dimension (3D) computer graphics video of the human body that aids learning by facilitating an understanding in relation to a specific subject. The Virtual Human is composed by video sequences combining anatomy, physiology, and morphology in the context of various diseases. There are video sequences available for many disciplines, including dermatology and with capacity to produce anatomical structures by 3D printer. Despite the incredible potential applications of the Virtual Human, few studies have assessed its impact on medical education. The investigators did not find any study evaluating TBL with the insertion of iconographic educational material that assessed whether this intervention could change the learning progress of students. This is the aim of the present study, by comparing students tests scores after a TBL session with the VIrtual Human videos about leprosy or a standard TBL session, and to evaluate the student's satisfaction with the Virtual Human videos.

Enrollment: 94 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• undergraduate medical students in the third year of Medical School at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Exclusion criteria

• students previously exposed to dermatologic research, extracurricular activities involving dermatology or dermatology rotation in that year

Trial design

94 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Exposed

Experimental group

Description:

The Virtual Human Project videos and Team-Based learning session about leprosy

Treatment:

Device: The Virtual Human Project

Unexposed

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Standard Team-Based learning session about leprosy