Use of a Serious Game to Teach Infectious Disease Management in Medical School: Effectiveness and Transfer to a Clinical Examination.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Physicians of all specialties must be familiar with important principles of infectious diseases, but curricular time for this content is limited and clinical teaching requires considerable resources in terms of available patients and teachers. Serious games are scalable interventions that can help standardize teaching. This study assessed whether knowledge and skills acquired in a serious game translate to better performance in a clinical examination.

Methods

Fifth-year undergraduate medical students (n = 100) at Goettingen Medical School were randomized to three groups receiving different levels of exposure to virtual patients presenting with signs and symptoms of either infective endocarditis or community-acquired pneumonia in a serious game simulating an ac

SUBMITTER: Aster A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9082676 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature