Table 3.

A summary of the qualitative feedback for virtual reality

Virtual reality qualitative feedback
Theme	Subtheme	Positive comments	Negative comments
Clinical practice	Communication and handover skills	–	‘No practise of communication’15 ‘Much more difficult than speaking and discussing A–E and management’13
	Drug prescribing	‘…easy to use and prescribe’10	‘Needs opportunity to look up drugs and doses instead of suggesting them’17 ‘No thinking involved in choosing Ix (investigations) and meds’6
	Ability to perform a systematic assessment	‘Felt that it allowed for structured approach’1 ‘Experience that worked through A–E’7	‘It made it difficult to structure assessment’8
	Access to guidelines and investigations	‘The access to guidelines/high-quality investigations results was very good.’2	–
	Gaining practical experience of performing examinations and assessments	–	‘Physically doing it is much more helpful—you can’t pick the questions or feel an abdomen’17
Simulation experience	Realism	‘It could give certain signs that sim man would not provide.’8 ‘… provided a better simulation of a ward environment than other types of simulation’9	‘Lots of thing (sic) were readily available that is, reg call, guidelines etc so this made it a bit unrealistic’8 ‘Time pressure unrealistic’19
	Technical aspects	‘Good system, easy to use’10	‘Due to the pressure of the mask on my glasses I had trouble focusing on high detail parts of the screen’1 ‘you have to really search for what you want to do, in real life you just do it!’17
	Prompting	‘Able to make clinical choices and have prompts for this’15	‘Maybe too much prompting, as inexperienced clinicians its good to learn the A–E w/o prompts’3
	Immersivity	‘Good to be immersed into virtual ward’14 ‘Very immersive, forget your (sic) in a room of people’11	–
	Enjoyment	‘Different and fun way to practise simulation’15	–
	Variety	‘I felt the range of options for communication, management and others were very good’1 ‘…possible to create more varied scenarios than with Sim Man’2	–