Digital games in health professions education: Advantages, disadvantages, and game engagement factors

Background: The application of digital educational games in health professions education is on expansion and game-based education usage is increasing. Methods: Diverse databases were searched and the related papers were reviewed. Results: Considering the growing popularity of educational games in me...

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Autores principales: Bigdeli, Shoaleh, Kaufman, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29951418
http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.31.117
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spelling pubmed-60147622018-06-27 Digital games in health professions education: Advantages, disadvantages, and game engagement factors Bigdeli, Shoaleh Kaufman, David Med J Islam Repub Iran Review Article Background: The application of digital educational games in health professions education is on expansion and game-based education usage is increasing. Methods: Diverse databases were searched and the related papers were reviewed. Results: Considering the growing popularity of educational games in medical education, we attempted to classify their benefits, flaws, and engaging factors. Conclusion: Advantages, disadvantages, and engagement factors of educational digital games used for health professions education must be the focus of attention in designing games for health professions discipline. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2017-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6014762/ /pubmed/29951418 http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.31.117 Text en © 2017 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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