Precourse Preparation Using a Serious Smartphone Game on Advanced Life Support Knowledge and Skills: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:In the past several years, gamified learning has been growing in popularity in various medical educational contexts including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. Furthermore, prior work in Basic Life Support (BLS) training has demonstrated the benefits of serious games as a method for pretraining among medical students. However, there is little evidence to support these benefits with regard to Advanced Life Support (ALS) training. OBJECTIVE:We compare the effects of a brief precourse ALS preparation using a serious smartphone game on student knowledge, skills, and perceptions in this area with those of conventional ALS training alone. METHODS:A serious game (Resus Days) was developed by a Thai physician based on global ALS clinical practice guidelines. Fifth-year medic

SUBMITTER: Phungoen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7091031 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature