How Medical Students Perceive Learning Anatomy with a Virtual Reality Program: Virtual Medicine, Compared to Traditional Learning Methods

As a fundamental subject, anatomy has been an essential and must course for students in health science fields. VR emerges as a powerful technique for experiencing a virtual world. Nowadays, there are attempts trying to combine virtual reality with anatomy education, to have a thorough understanding of anatomy and to take advantage of this technology, this research was conducted to examine the perceptions of medical students about learning anatomy with Virtual Reality (VR), which could provide students with an immersive environment, compared to the methods they have previously used.By inviting participants to come to the VR room and use the program themselves, this study used a mix-methods design, with a focus on the qualitative side in order to learn more about subjects’ thoughts and thus provide an angle for the potential improvement of VR technology applied to education in the future. Three sets of data were collected from the beginning to the end of each 35-minute test sessions, including observed behaviours,test score and individual test. Results of the study show the general opinions of students and imply that VR technology applied to anatomy could be very promising and positive.Master of Science in Information Scienc