The Bloody Board Game: A Game-Based Approach for Learning High-Value Care Principles in the Setting of Anemia Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With growing health care costs, high-value care is an increasingly important subject for medical training. Many resident and medical student curricula have incorporated lectures-based material about this topic. However, practical-type experiences are needed to refine critical-thinking skills essential for high-value care.

Methods

To provide such practical experiences, we developed an instructional game for resident-level education that incorporated cost-constraint-based approaches in the workup of anemia. To play the game, teams of learners were given patients with anemia of unknown cause. To pay for their diagnostic tests of choice, teams earned money by correctly answering internal medicine resident-level anemia questions. The first team to successfully work u

SUBMITTER: Pisano TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7751328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature