A serious gamed-based approach to assessing surgical residents
A serious gamed-based approach to assessing surgical residents
A serious gamed-based approach to assessing surgical residents
December 3, 2021
By Gordy Slack
Summary
A team of Stanford Medicine-based surgeons has paired up with a UC-Santa Cruz "Serious game" developer and assistant professor, Edward Melcer, PhD, to create a game-based online platform for assessing surgical decision making.
The patient's vital signs are displayed overhead. A medical chart provides a brief synopsis of the patient's signs and symptoms.
The player can "Examine" the patient by passing a cursor over different parts of the patient's body.
Traditionally, oral exams are used to assess the surgical decision-making skills of graduating residents.
LaDonna Kearse, MD, a third-year surgical resident at Howard University, currently spending two years at Stanford as a Surgical Education Fellow, used ENTRUST as part of a study of the platform conducted in May. "I felt that it was assessing my ability to interact with a patient, not just my ability to answer hypothetical questions," Kearse said.
Lin, Liebert and their partners have developed and studied one type of module for ENTRUST, based on patients with groin hernias.
Two studies tested a total of 62 players - medical students, interns, surgical residents and more experienced surgeons - and found that scores correlated closely with players' levels of experience, "Demonstrating that ENTRUST is a robust assessment platform for surgical decision making," said Lin.
Reference
Slack, G. (2021, December 3). A serious gamed-based approach to assessing surgical residents. Retrieved February 04, 2022, from https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2021/12/03/a-seriously-playful-new-approach-to-evaluating-surgical-residents/