Mladenovic Rasa, AlQahtani Sakher, Mladenovic Kristina, Bukumiric Zoran, Zafar Sobia
Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.
College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
BMC Oral Health. 2022 Feb 13;22(1):40. doi: 10.1186/s12903-022-02077-6.
Traditional face-to-face clinical learning became problematic for final year dental students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Distance-learning may help mitigate the immediate impact of dental school closures. Integrating e-learning technologies into the learning process helps bridge the gap between pre-clinical and clinical training. Simulation allows students to repeat procedures until they demonstrate acceptable levels of skill. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a serious game as an additional teaching tool during the COVID-19 era to improve dental students' local anaesthesia administration technique and confidence.
This study applied a simulation-based serious game as an additional learning tool for training and educating dental students in local anaesthesia. Students used a mobile simulator in Serbian for 10 days from their homes. To evaluate the learning process, the students completed a post-training questionnaire.
All respondents felt comfortable using the simulator. Over 90% of respondents believed that the application facilitated the learning process and had advantages in terms of accessibility and ease of use. Also, students found augmented reality (AR) technology particularly interesting to use. The use of a mobile simulator designed as a 3D and AR environment allows for simpler localisation and identification of anatomical structures and reference points, which is a good base for clinical practice.
Serious games of local anaesthesia procedures as an additional e-learning tool during the COVID-19 era could improve students' knowledge and skills.
在新冠疫情期间，传统的面对面临床学习对牙科专业最后一年的学生来说变得困难重重。远程学习可能有助于减轻牙科学校关闭带来的直接影响。将电子学习技术融入学习过程有助于弥合临床前培训和临床培训之间的差距。模拟使学生能够重复操作程序，直到他们展示出可接受的技能水平。本研究旨在确定一款严肃游戏作为新冠疫情时代的额外教学工具，对提高牙科学生局部麻醉给药技术和信心的有效性。
本研究应用一款基于模拟的严肃游戏作为培训和教育牙科学生局部麻醉的额外学习工具。学生在家中使用塞尔维亚语的移动模拟器，为期10天。为了评估学习过程，学生们完成了一份培训后问卷。
所有受访者都对使用模拟器感到满意。超过90%的受访者认为该应用程序促进了学习过程，在可及性和易用性方面具有优势。此外，学生们发现增强现实（AR）技术特别有趣。使用设计为3D和AR环境的移动模拟器可以更简单地定位和识别解剖结构及参考点，这是临床实践的良好基础。
在新冠疫情时代，将局部麻醉程序的严肃游戏作为额外的电子学习工具可以提高学生的知识和技能。
