Gamification of graduate medical education in an emergency medicine residency program.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our program implemented East EMWars, a year-long, longitudinal game that added competition to our existing curricular content. We surveyed residents to investigate the impact of gamification in emergency medicine residency training. We hypothesized that residents would report higher levels of motivation, engagement, and challenge with gamification compared to traditional didactics. Furthermore, we hypothesized that residents would exhibit generally positive perceptions about gamification as a learning tool and that it would translate to improved performance on the annual in-training examination.

Methods

This was a single-center, prospective pre- and post-intervention survey study at a community-based emergency medicine residency program. Given the multiplicity of

SUBMITTER: Gue S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9425934 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature