CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION Clinical Trial
Official title:
Development and Evaluation of Hygie, a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners: a Randomized Trial
We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 13 French departments of general practice.
Continuing medical education is important but burdensome work for general practitioners.
Current training tools have limitations and may lack the ability to engage some
practitioners. Serious games are new pedagogical tools that use video games as engaging
education tools. They have significant advantages in terms of efficiency and dissemination.
The aim of this work was to create a new serious game and to evaluate it in terms of
efficiency and satisfaction, comparing it with a traditional method of continuing education:
article reading.
We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation
in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by
Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning
provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical
supervisors (CS) from 14 French departments of general practice.
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