Riener R, Burgkart R
Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80290 Munich, Germany.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2001;81:407-9.
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have the potential to support medical education and training. In order to orient the development of medical VR applications towards the actual deficiencies and demands in orthopedics, we performed a survey among 56 orthopedic physicians. They were asked to provide information about the kind of physical joint evaluation tests which they perform most often, the importance of physical joint evaluation in comparison to alternative diagnostic methods, and their opinion about current medical education system as well as the prospects of VR applications in orthopedics. The main conclusion of this survey is that VR applications have the potential to improve the lacking medical education and orthopedic training, e.g. by improving the quality of joint evaluation methods, reducing the high number of unhealthy, risky and expensive alternative diagnostic procedures.
虚拟现实（VR）技术有潜力支持医学教育与培训。为了使医学VR应用的发展针对骨科实际存在的不足和需求，我们对56位骨科医生进行了一项调查。我们要求他们提供有关他们最常进行的身体关节评估测试类型、与其他诊断方法相比身体关节评估的重要性，以及他们对当前医学教育体系的看法和VR应用在骨科的前景等信息。本次调查的主要结论是，VR应用有潜力改善医学教育和骨科培训方面的不足，例如通过提高关节评估方法的质量，减少大量不健康、有风险且昂贵的替代诊断程序。
