The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education

  • Authors:
  • Kyle Johnsen;Andrew Raij;Amy Stevens;D. Scott Lind;Benjamin Lok

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA;University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Any new tool introduced for education needs to be validated. We developed a virtual human experience called the Virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination (VOSCE). In the VOSCE, a medical student examines a life-size virtual human who is presenting symptoms of an illness. The student is then graded on interview skills. As part of a medical school class requirement, thirty three second year medical students participated in a user study designed to determine the validity of the VOSCE for testing interview skills. In the study, participant performance in the VOSCE is compared to participant performance in the OSCE, an interview with a trained actor. There was a significant correlation (r(33)=.49, p