Quantifying Efficacy of Video Interventions about Adverse Events in Medical Student Education

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic catalyzed a rapid shift toward remote learning in medicine. This study hypothesized that using videos on adverse events and patient safety event reporting systems could enhance education and motivation among healthcare professionals, leading to improved performance on quizzes compared with those exposed to standard, in-person lectures.

Participants were randomly assigned to a group both watching the video and attending an in-person lecture or a group that received only the in-person lecture in this study performed in 2022. Surveys gathered demographic information, tested knowledge, and identified barriers to reporting adverse events.

A total of 83 unique participants responded to the survey out of the 130 students enrolled (64%; 83/130). Among the students completing all of the surveys, the group who watched the Osmosis video had a higher average quiz score (6.46/7) than the lecture group (6.31/7) following the first intervention. Only 25% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that they knew what to include in a patient safety report and only 10% agreed or strongly agreed that they knew how to access the reporting system.

This study suggests virtual preclass video learning can be a beneficial tool to complement traditional lecture-based learning in medical education. Further research is needed to determine the efficacy of long-term video interventions in adverse events.