Applying Entertaining Aspects of Serious Game in Medical Training: Systematic Review and Implementation

Virtual Reality (VR) has been widely used for medical area applications in order to help students and health care professionals to practice procedures before execute them on real patients. The evaluation of the user´s learning is a very important step in any educational process, including systems for medical training. Serious Games are intended to employ entertaining aspects to training, knowledge transfer and simulations. This category of software can provide more motivation in the use of tools for training and also help in the evaluation of the learner. The aim of this paper is to present a serious game as a way to enhance the user experience in the use of medical training tools that use VR. This serious game contains entertaining aspects that are designed to stimulate the student to perform virtually the examination of breast biopsy.