Research on the Effectiveness of Medical Virtual Simulation Teaching Based on the Factor Analysis Method

Medical education is undergoing a transformation, and virtual simulation (VS) laboratory techniques are increasingly being used to train medical students. In this paper, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 191 medical schoolteachers who have used VS to teach, to investigate the effectiveness of the current implementation of VS in higher education. Factor analysis of the research data was carried out, and two common factors were obtained, namely, “organizational and technological readiness” and “teaching effectiveness and content quality” reflecting the two important factors influencing the effectiveness of VS teaching. It analyses the reasons for the low satisfaction of VS teaching in medical colleges (mean score 3.417) and proposes corresponding countermeasures.