Table 2.

Advantages and disadvantages of training various medical groups using virtual reality

Disadvantages	Advantages
The high cost of the simulators	Decrease in the frequency of training and the ease of training using VR (22-28)
The long nature of some studies in the field of virtual reality	Decrease in the time of surgery in the real environment (23,29,30)
The high cost of these studies (high cost of monitors, programming, implementation environment, participants, etc.)	Positive psychological effect on learners (23)
It can never replace the real environment training	Increase in accuracy and accuracy of trainers and reduction of errors (21)
Its implementation requires identification of the effective factors and conditions of that society	Improving the teamwork in the medical team (31)
Additional training using VR without supervision can cause extra stitching, and lead to damages to tissues, and more	Increase in self-confidence in learners using VR compared to other groups (32,23)
The course of studies is very limited; therefore, further studies and more accurate evaluations are necessary	Decrease of harm to those being treated by people who are trained by VR, decrease in mistakes and more successful surgeries (29,33-35)
Some studies have also pointed to the increase in training time (18-21)	Increase in skills of learners (18,21,24,28,36)
	Better learning of anatomical positions (27)
	Better understanding of the exterior and interior space relationships between the organs (27)
	Valuable approach for Standard and unified education of medical groups (28)
	Increase in the skill of surgeon (21)
	Increase in the safety of the physician and patients (21,33,34)
	Decrease in the costs and increase in the efficiency (18,22,26,37)
	Overall performance improvement (32,35,38)