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Games for Medical Education and Training (88) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2388) e-Learning and Medical Education (645) Serious Games for Education (137) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (641) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (509)

Published on in Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Oct-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/29586, first published .
Effectiveness and Utility of Virtual Reality Simulation as an Educational Tool for Safe Performance of COVID-19 Diagnostics: Prospective, Randomized Pilot Trial

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

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

Authors of this article:

Tanja Birrenbach1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Josua Zbinden1 Author Orcid Image ;   George Papagiannakis3, 4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Aristomenis K Exadaktylos1 Author Orcid Image ;   Martin Müller1 Author Orcid Image ;   Wolf E Hautz1 Author Orcid Image ;   Thomas Christian Sauter1 Author Orcid Image
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