第18巻 2022年2月　第1号

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Virtual Reality技術を活用した外科系臨床実習
進士　誠一¹, 横堀　將司², 清水　哲也¹, 神田　知洋¹, 林　光希¹, 安康　勝喜¹, 吉田　寛^1
1日本医科大学消化器外科
²日本医科大学救急医学教室

Use of Virtual Reality Technology in Clinical Clerkships in Surgery
Seiichi Shinji¹, Shoji Yokobori², Tetsuya Shimizu¹, Tomohiro Kanda¹, Koki Hayashi¹, Katsuyoshi Ankoh¹ and Hiroshi Yoshida^1
1)Departments of Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Nippon Medical School
²⁾Departments of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School

During their clinical clerkships (CCs) in surgery, medical students are generally introduced to such areas as surgical indications, surgical techniques, and perioperative management through rounds and practical skills training on wards and in operating rooms. Given the technological advances made in virtual reality (VR) over recent years and its increasing use in education and corporate training, we decided to try using VR for the benefit of students on surgical CCs. To this end, we developed what we termed a "VR surgery tour" in the field of gastrointestinal surgery, which involved students using VR goggles to view edited 3D images. We then asked 26 fifth- and sixth-year medical students at Nippon Medical School assigned to CCs in gastrointestinal surgery between November 2020 and September 2021 to evaluate the VR surgery tour via a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire included questions using a five-point Likert scale and space for free comments. Our results showed that all respondents felt satisfied with the VR surgery tour, with 96% of them indicating it was a viable alternative to clinical training; moreover, about 90% of the students found it useful as a teaching aid for pre-learning and requested that VR teaching materials be made available in other fields as well. We concluded that our VR surgery tour is a valuable supplement to practical training in gastrointestinal surgery and that it increases medical students' motivation to learn. We believe VR is an effective teaching aid and that there will be increasing demand for its use in various education and training programs.

日医大医会誌 2022; 18(1), 98-104

Key words
virtual reality, surgical training, gastrointestinal surgery, clinical clerkship, education

Correspondence to
Seiichi Shinji, Departments of Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
E-mail：s-shinji@nms.ac.jp

受付：2021年10月14日　受理：2021年12月3日