Use of 360° Video for a Virtual Operating Theatre Orientation for Medical Students.

Background: Operating theatres are a unique learning environment that some learners find daunting. By employing orientations some of these fears can be reduced but these require operating theatre space and personnel and are not standardized.

Methods: We utilized a 360° camera to generate a "virtual" 360° video orientation.

Virtual Patient Journey: a novel learning resource.

Background: Virtual Patient Journey (VPJ) is a novel online resource that follows a patient through their illness and integrates first-person video content with in-video decision making, allowing the student to take on the responsibility of a health care professional. The aim of our project was to compare this new VPJ format with standard teaching tutorials.

Methods: Third-year medical students selected from two Bristol hospitals were allocated to either the VPJ format or a typical tutorial-style teaching session.

Acting like a doctor: oral case presentation curriculum for medical students.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background Verbal communication is an important element to clinical practice and an integral part of undergraduate medical education.