Arab Educational Information Network

Medical students in Saudi Arabia currently learn their curricula through traditional tools and methods that prepare them to become medical professionals. Adding virtual reality (VR) as a new method of teaching can act as an educational tool to help students to learn by doing. This research discusses the impact of using VR in medical universities in Saudi Arabia on educating undergraduate medical students by assembling the perspective of medical universities professors to use VR as an educational aid to facilitate the teaching and learning inside university classrooms. In this paper, the first chapter introduces the topic of “Virtual Reality in Medical Education”. Following that, the second chapter discusses the literature review. The main findings of this study suggest that the technology of VR is beneficial in medical education, VR simulation applications enhance learning results for an assortment of surgeries, and all possible challenges can be solved with the cooperation of the universities that will provide this technology. Next, the needs and objectives of this research will be stated. The third chapter discusses the chosen methodologies that were used. Finally, the fourth chapter will discuss all the findings that have been discovered from the previous research methods. The results of this research conclude that the use VR in medical education is superbly appropriate and shows a positive impact on medical education and is probably going to fill in as a basic tool in clinical schooling. In addition, the findings confirm the excitement of medical professors to use this technology in their classrooms. The findings are only limited to universities in Saudi Arabia as they do not apply to universities in other countries as the research was based on medical professors in Saudi Arabia. (Published abstract)