TITLE:
Kazan State Medical University Survey after the Use of CyberPatientTM during COVID-19
AUTHORS:
Laysan Mukharyamova, Maksim Kuznetsov, Andrei Izmailov, Elena Koshpaeva, Samuel Stumborg, Karim Qayumi
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19, Medical Education, Remote Learning, Digital Education, Virtual Clinical Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
27,
2020
ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for medical education,
particularly for the acquisition of clinical skills. At Kazan State Medical
University (KSMU), we used an online simulation platform called CyberPatientTM (CP) to provide a clinical environment in a virtual space with a variety of
patients for students to practice their clinical skills. In this study, we
surveyed 59 students who used CP in the 2020 spring semester. This survey’s
objectives were to gather the students’ opinion on usability, value, efficacy
and impact of the CP platform. Survey results revealed that CP is used
significantly (P 0.0001)
more when it is an integral part of the curriculum, it was not difficult to
operate the system (96.6%); the students were satisfied with the number,
quality and variety of the cases in CP platform (93.3%); over 90% of students
identified CP valuable; a significant number of students (p 0.001) believed that CP was effective and 89.9% of students believed that
CP had a measurably high impact on their knowledge and experience. This study
concludes that the use of virtual clinical environments such as CP is perceived
by students to be valuable and effective in
learning clinical skills particularly during this pandemic and in the
post-pandemic period when the access of students to clinical environments
remains limited.