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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Games Media Entertainment (GEM), 2014 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7545-7
DOI :
10.1109/GEM.2014.7048114
