Effectiveness and Utility of Virtual Reality Simulation as an Educational Tool for Safe Performance of COVID-19 Diagnostics: Prospective, Randomized Pilot Trial

Tanja Birrenbach   ^{1, 2} , MME, MD ;   Josua Zbinden   ¹ ;   George Papagiannakis   ^{3, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Aristomenis K Exadaktylos   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Martin Müller   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Wolf E Hautz   ¹ , MME, MD ;   Thomas Christian Sauter   ¹ , MME, MD

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

² Centre for Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

³ ORamaVR SA, Geneva, Switzerland

⁴ Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

⁵ Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece