Chatbot-based serious games: A useful tool for training medical students? A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Chatbots, conversational agents that walk medical students (MS) though a clinical case, are serious games that seem to be appreciated by MS. Their impact on MS's performance in exams however was not yet evaluated. Chatprogress is a chatbot-based game developed at Paris Descartes University. It contains 8 pulmonology cases with step-by-step answers delivered with pedagogical comments. The CHATPROGRESS study aimed to evaluate the impact of Chatprogress on students' success rate in their end-term exams.

Methods

We conducted a post-test randomized controlled trial held on all fourth-year MS at Paris Descartes University. All MS were asked to follow the University's regular lectures, and half of them were randomly given access to Chatprogress. At the end of the term, m

SUBMITTER: Al Kahf S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10010502 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature