Haptic modules for palpatory diagnosis training of medical students
Virtual Reality
The authors developed and evaluated a novel tool based on haptics and virtual reality technology for augmenting the teaching of palpatory diagnosis. This novel tool can act as an automated expert and an animated textbook to illuminate palpatory diagnosis concepts by touch on a laptop PC and by using affordable haptic interfaces that can be housed in a medical student resource library. It can be used for unlimited student practice for improving skills from osteopathic manipulative medicine laboratory and also as a repeatable and objective measure of palpatory skill to track student progress. More
