• DocumentCode
    3565616
  • Title

    Gamification and health professions education

  • Author

    Rojas, David ; Cowan, Brent ; Kapralos, Bill ; Dubrowski, Adam

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Med. Sci., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Here we analyze and provide a description of our ongoing work that couples an online learning management system and gamification to provide an engaging and motivating learning experience for health professions students.
  • Keywords
    biomedical education; learning management systems; medical computing; serious games (computing); gamification; health profession education; health profession student; learning experience; online learning management system; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Games; Heating; Surgery; Training; Gamification; health professions education; learning management system; serious games;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Games Media Entertainment (GEM), 2014 IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-7545-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GEM.2014.7048114
  • Filename
    7048114