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Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education
Case-based learning has always been a key element of dental education and the incorporation of technology into the concept became increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a virtual interactive case resource in oral medicine/oral pathology,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9498877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091767 |
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author | Tee, Wen Xi Tan, Siew Huey Marican, Fareeza Sidhu, Preena Yerebairapura Math, Swarna Gopinath, Divya |
author_facet | Tee, Wen Xi Tan, Siew Huey Marican, Fareeza Sidhu, Preena Yerebairapura Math, Swarna Gopinath, Divya |
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description | Case-based learning has always been a key element of dental education and the incorporation of technology into the concept became increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a virtual interactive case resource in oral medicine/oral pathology, Virtual Oral Medicine Clinic (VOMC), with the virtual role play among third-year dental undergraduates. Fifty-one students were randomly assigned into two groups and the control group was subjected to a role play activity, whereas the experimental group was provided with VOMC. Both groups were assessed with an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) before and after the intervention. Students’ self-perceived usefulness of the interventions was evaluated by a questionnaire and randomly selected students were invited for focus group discussions. Data were analysed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the Mann–Whitney U test. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse student responses. Students in both groups demonstrated significant improvement (p < 0.001) in the post-test compared to the pre-test. Students in the experimental group demonstrated higher overall scores (p < 0.001) when compared to the control group. Though both methods were received favourably by the students, role play was more positively perceived when compared to digital resource. Though VOMC was shown to improve student scores, the perception of VOMC was not quantitatively superior to the role play activity. Hence VOMC can be recommended as an adjunct tool to enhance learning in oral medicine in undergraduate dental students. |
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spelling | pubmed-94988772022-09-23 Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education Tee, Wen Xi Tan, Siew Huey Marican, Fareeza Sidhu, Preena Yerebairapura Math, Swarna Gopinath, Divya Healthcare (Basel) Article Case-based learning has always been a key element of dental education and the incorporation of technology into the concept became increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a virtual interactive case resource in oral medicine/oral pathology, Virtual Oral Medicine Clinic (VOMC), with the virtual role play among third-year dental undergraduates. Fifty-one students were randomly assigned into two groups and the control group was subjected to a role play activity, whereas the experimental group was provided with VOMC. Both groups were assessed with an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) before and after the intervention. Students’ self-perceived usefulness of the interventions was evaluated by a questionnaire and randomly selected students were invited for focus group discussions. Data were analysed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the Mann–Whitney U test. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse student responses. Students in both groups demonstrated significant improvement (p < 0.001) in the post-test compared to the pre-test. Students in the experimental group demonstrated higher overall scores (p < 0.001) when compared to the control group. Though both methods were received favourably by the students, role play was more positively perceived when compared to digital resource. Though VOMC was shown to improve student scores, the perception of VOMC was not quantitatively superior to the role play activity. Hence VOMC can be recommended as an adjunct tool to enhance learning in oral medicine in undergraduate dental students. MDPI 2022-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9498877/ /pubmed/36141379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091767 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tee, Wen Xi Tan, Siew Huey Marican, Fareeza Sidhu, Preena Yerebairapura Math, Swarna Gopinath, Divya Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education |
title | Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education |
title_full | Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education |
title_fullStr | Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education |
title_short | Comparison of Digital Interactive Case-Based Educational Resource with Virtual Role Play in Dental Undergraduates in Clinical Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Education |
title_sort | comparison of digital interactive case-based educational resource with virtual role play in dental undergraduates in clinical oral medicine/oral pathology education |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9498877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091767 |
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