A Multimedia Audience Response Game Show for Medical Education

Abstract

Games are increasingly popular in medical education. However, there is a need for games that target today's learners, including their preferences for active participation, social interaction, immediate feedback, and multimedia formats. With these preferences in mind, a commercially available game show template was used to develop a game show for review of medical microbiology. The game show was combined with an audience response system ("clickers") to enable participation of all students in a large group setting. A 19-item questionnaire was used to measure students' perceptions of the game. The questionnaire was administered after participants had played the games on three separate occasions during their first year of medical school. The response of medical students to the game shows was overwhelmingly positive. Students valued the ability of the game shows to engage them, to provide a positive learning environment, to clarify concepts, and to develop clinical thinking. The game software combined with an audience response system provides a visually rich, engaging format that could be used for a review of any basic science discipline.

Developing Technology-Enhanced Active Learning for Medical Education: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions

“…Our experience In addition, the TEAL-MEd committee members have recently published a description of Bravo games for formative assessment, including student perceptions of this TEAL-MEd format. 38 We are currently preparing manuscripts describing gamification of TurningPoint, student clinical reasoning, collaboration and engagement during DecisionSim activities, and student perceptions of the effectiveness of Prognosis-ATSU games for student learning. During these activities, we have observed students collaborating and faculty evolving in their new roles as guides on the side.…”

Student perceptions of gamified audience response system interactions in large group lectures and via lecture capture technology

“…The core elements of active learning, student activity and engagement, are central to educational game theory [ 18 – 21 ]. Games are growing in popularity at all levels of education, including medical education [ 22 – 35 ], and include simulations, virtual environments, social and cooperative play, and alternative reality games [ 18 ]. A survey of family medicine and internal medicine residency programs directors in the United States indicated that 80 % used games as an educational strategy in their residency training programs [ 23 ].…”

Gamification and Multimedia for Medical Education: A Landscape Review

“…Games, mobile applications, and virtual patient simulations can be used in medical curricula to promote learning, 11,[17][18][19] engagement, 20,21 collaboration, [22][23][24] realworld application, 25 clinical decision making, 18 distance training, 8 learning analytics, 16 and swift feedback. 6 views, textbooks on education game instruction, and Table 1).…”

“…Gamified training platforms that we identified for preclinical training included 5 electronic games (some with audience response systems 20 and some accessed online) and 4 mobile applications. Table 2 lists these resources by platform type and summarizes descriptions and advantages of each platform.…”