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End Of Life Virtual Reality Training: Medical Student Increased Empathic Ability, Daniel Minukhin
End Of Life Virtual Reality Training: Medical Student Increased Empathic Ability, Daniel Minukhin
Osteopathic Medicine Student Projects
Presentation regarding the following research: To determine if self-assessed empathy can be increased through an end of life virtual reality (VR) experience, second year UNE COM medical students (N=174) completed the Clay Lab VR experience during January 2020. Student embodied Clay, 66 year old male veteran with incurable lung cancer. Experiences included a difficult end-of-life conversation; transition to home hospice care; and eventually death. Students were asked to complete a pre-test and post-test survey. The pre/post test surveys included eight Likert scale questions and two open-ended questions. The data was collected via the RedCap program. Pre and post-test data was …