Serious Games

Elias SalamehCharalambos SymeouKonstantinos Senekkis

Pavel Christofi

Why Serious Games

• Not for entertainment• Main Purposes:– Training– Investigation– Learning environment

• Simulation is closed to real environment• Serious games widely used by medical

professionals

Scope and objectives of the Video

• Secure environment for training(virtual patient)• Mobility(Anywhere, Anytime)• Evaluation Tool for teachers(more accurate

evaluation)• Helps student increase knowledge and practice• Get more familiar with medical equipment• Revolutionary model method of training

personal staff

Educational Elements

• Educational purpose (Training medical staff)• Examine participant knowledge and skills• More confidence in real

environment(situation)• Clear understanding of the necessary

procedure to deal with different incidents (Golden Hour)

Video Comments

• The video simulates a situation where a nurse examines a patient according to HER, follows certain procedures (Blood pressure, heart rate,body temperature) to evaluate the health of the patient.

Article:Improving Health by Investigating In Medical Education

• Mismatch between education courses and actual skills needed (how to prepare best medical students).

• Insvest the limited resources on education and provide community based primary care, rather than building expensive specialized hospitals.

Article Reference

• http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020424

• Citation: The PLoS Medicine Editors (2005) Improving Health by Investing in Medical Education. PLoS Med 2(12): e424. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020424

• Published: December 27, 2005• Copyright: © 2005 The PLoS Medicine Editors. This is an

open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Video References

• Company: CliniSpace Next-Generation Immersive Learning Environments for Healthcare

• Video: Practicing SBAR with CliniSpace • URL: http

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88dXtUp1M0&feature=related