Virtual Reality Communication Training in Pain Medicine: Effects on Medical Students' Racial Bias, Empathy, and Interview Performance with Virtual Patients

Pain Med. 2024 Oct 8:pnae100. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnae100. Online ahead of print.

Jordan N Kohn^{1

2}, Emily A Troyer², Kathleen L Wilson¹, Rajiv Reddy³, Cassandra Vieten^{4

5}, Erik Viirre⁶, Weena Joshi⁷, Joseph Unger⁸, Trisha Williams⁸, Dimitri J Gonzales¹, Suzi Hong^{1

2}

¹ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
⁴ Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
⁵ Department of Family Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
⁶ Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.
⁸ Origami Air Company, La Jolla, CA, United States 92093.

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