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Use of Expert Opinions as a Guide to Develop a Tool to Assess a Virtual 3D Pelvis Model for Medical Training
Author(s) -
Meyer Edgar R.,
James Amber M.,
Dehon Erin,
Pound Charles R.,
Warren Susan,
Cui Dongmei
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.635.18
Subject(s) - likert scale , medical education , scale (ratio) , virtual reality , psychological intervention , computer science , medicine , psychology , artificial intelligence , nursing , cartography , geography , developmental psychology
3D anatomical models are often implemented in medical education to assist medical students and residents in learning human anatomy. During surgical procedures, virtual 3D anatomical models can also help residents and attending physicians map their approaches to anatomical structures during operational interventions. Given the variability that exists in 3D models, experts will be solicited for their opinions concerning which anatomical structures are most crucial to display in virtual 3D models of the pelvis used in educating medical students and residents. Experts will include physicians and scientists who have mastered pelvic anatomy and who have experience teaching medical students and residents about the pelvic region. These expert opinions will be used to improve the accuracy of structures and to enhance the interpretation of the special 3D relationships of structures within the model. Each of the expert responses will be incorporated into a survey that will be distributed to all of the experts for a final review in which they will analyze each item and rank, using a Likert scale, its importance for medical training. The content validity of this survey will be determined by computing the content validity index (CVI) and removing items with a low rank. The results of this survey will be used to guide the creation of the 3D model and to improve the quality of pelvic models in medical education. Future studies will address the evaluation of pelvic models using this assessment tool. In addition, future studies will explore the application of these models to medical students' learning as well as medical residents' training in surgical procedures involving the contents of the pelvic cavity and the contents of the lower abdominal cavity that are closely associated with the pelvis. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .