Medical Student Evaluation With a Serious Game Compared to Multiple Choice Questions Assessment.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The gold standard for evaluating medical students' knowledge is by multiple choice question (MCQs) tests: an objective and effective means of restituting book-based knowledge. However, concerns have been raised regarding their effectiveness to evaluate global medical skills. Furthermore, MCQs of unequal difficulty can generate frustration and may also lead to a sizable proportion of close results with low score variability. Serious games (SG) have recently been introduced to better evaluate students' medical skills. OBJECTIVES:The study aimed to compare MCQs with SG for medical student evaluation. METHODS:We designed a cross-over randomized study including volunteer medical students from two medical schools in Paris (France) from January to September 2016. The students were rand

SUBMITTER: Adjedj J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5449650 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature