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.

First-person perspective video to enhance simulation.

Background: Simulation training is increasingly being used as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum, but it remains time and faculty member intensive. To improve efficacy, videos have been used prior to the simulation of practical procedures; however, using videos prior to simulation training concerning the management of patients who are unwell has not been investigated. The aim of this project was to see whether clinical decision-making and non-technical skills can be improved if a video is used prior to simulation training, and uniquely to enhance the authenticity we filmed it using a first-person perspective.

Predicting blood transfusion in patients undergoing minimally invasive oesophagectomy.

Aim: To evaluate predictors of allogenic blood transfusion requirements in patients undergoing minimal invasive oesophagectomy at a tertiary high volume centre for oesophago-gastric surgery.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of all patients undergoing minimal access oesophagectomy in our department between January 2010 and December 2011. Patients were divided into two groups depending on whether they required a blood transfusion at any time during their index admission.

Live lecture versus video podcast in undergraduate medical education: A randomised controlled trial.

Background: Information technology is finding an increasing role in the training of medical students. We compared information recall and student experience and preference after live lectures and video podcasts in undergraduate medical education.

Methods: We performed a crossover randomised controlled trial.