Online clinical skills education using a wearable action camera for medical students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze medical students’ satisfaction and educational effectiveness after real-time online clinical skills edu-cation using a wearable action camera. One hundred eighteen third-year medical students participated in this study. The education program consisted of clinical skills (wound management and vascular access procedures) and a medical interview with a simulated patient. The au-thor wore the head-mounted action camera throughout the class. A systematic questionnaire survey was issued to the students after the education program to analyze the educational satisfaction and effec-tiveness. This education program showed their high educational satisfaction. The online environment was also mostly positive except for some negative comments about video quality. In the educational satis-faction, though the comparative satisfaction with the face-to-face skill class was slightly lower, the rest of the questionnaire items also showed high relative satisfaction. Online video education using a wearable camera could be a good modality that can replace a face-to-face class when it is impossible to open the class