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Record W4416321851 · doi:10.36834/cmej.81433

Six ways to get a grip on computer vision syndrome in medical school examinations

2025· article· en· W4416321851 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Amir‐Ali Golrokhian‐Sani, Maya Morcos, Chloe Gottlieb

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Medical Education Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicErgonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
Canadian institutionsOttawa HospitalUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHarmMedical schoolFixation (population genetics)Eye trackingLow vision

Abstract

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Computer Vision Syndrome is a group of vision symptoms related to screen use, which is a growing point of concern as screens become more integrated into daily life. Medical students are hit particularly hard by this, as they report substantial levels of screen use. While screens are practically necessary in medical education, there are areas of harm reduction that have yet to be addressed. Medical exams are particularly hostile to eye health, as students have to stare at screens for prolonged periods, making them ideal subjects for eye protection and education interventions. Some steps that examiners can take to encourage positive habits in their students are to extend exams with spaces for five-minute breaks or according to the 20-20-20 Rule, encourage an area of alternate fixation for eye breaks, add audio cues signalling breaks, educate about environmental and postural modifications to improve eye health, allow lubricating drops in exams, and modify exams to decrease suspicion of academic misconduct. Le syndrome de la vision artificielle est un ensemble de symptômes visuels liés à l'utilisation d'écrans, ce qui est de plus en plus préoccupant, étant donné que ces écrans sont de plus en plus intégrés à la vie quotidienne. Les étudiants en médecine sont particulièrement touchés par ce phénomène, car ils utilisent souvent les écrans pour leurs études. Pourtant que les écrans sont pratiquement nécessaires dans l'enseignement médical, certains aspects de la réduction des dommages n'ont pas encore été explorés. Les examens médicaux sont particulièrement hostiles à la santé oculaire, car les étudiants doivent regarder des écrans pendant de longues périodes, ce qui en fait des sujets idéaux pour des interventions de protection et d'éducation oculaires. Pour encourager les étudiants à adopter des habitudes positives, les examinateurs peuvent notamment prolonger les examens en prévoyant des pauses de cinq minutes ou en suivant la règle des 20-20-20, encourager une autre zone de fixation pour les pauses, ajouter des signaux audio pour signaler les pauses, informer sur les modifications environnementales et posturales permettant d'améliorer la santé oculaire, autoriser l'utilisation de gouttes lubrifiantes lors des examens, et modifier les examens pour réduire les soupçons de mauvaise conduite académique.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.557
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0520.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.313 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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