Serious Game Versus Online Course to Pre-train Medical Students on the Management of an Adult Cardiac Arrest.

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

82 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-06-30

Study Completion Date

2016-10-31

Brief Summary

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The objective of this study is to compare two forms of pre-training (an online narrative presentation and a serious game) to prepare 2nd year medical students for a hands-on training with physical simulators about out-of-hospital cardiac arrest management.

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Detailed Description

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Technology-enhanced simulation allows mastery learning. Mastery learning is a variety of competency-based education which has demonstrated its efficacy for skills acquisition and their transfer to actual settings. While traditional education defines fixed learning time and allows outcomes to vary, in mastery learning, all trainees must achieve a predefined level of proficiency while their learning time can vary. The main limitation of mastery learning is that it takes more time than non-mastery learning. This is of concern because the main barrier to simulation-based training is the lack of faculty time. Thus, new solutions should emerge to conciliate mastery learning and time constraints on physical simulators.

Pre-training with a "simulation game" may be a mean to reach this objective. Simulation games are serious games which are at the cross roads between (1) educational games which are "applications using the characteristics of video and computer games to create engaging and immersive learning experiences", and (2) simulation, the imitation of situations which can be encountered in real-life. They combine the advantages of educational games (active, personalized learning) and simulation (realistic and safe environment for experiential learning). By contrast, pre-training with an online course using a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover narration lecture is both passive and abstract.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the time-efficiency of pre-training using a simulation game versus an online course to reach mastery learning in the management of an adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Conditions

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Education, Medical, Undergraduate Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Simulation Training

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Serious Game

Participants in the "serious game" group will be pre-trained before the hands-on sessions with the serious game "Staying Alive", available at http://www.stayingalive.fr/index\_us.html This game aims at teaching the management of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to the general public and health professionals. In this game, the player faces a man who has experienced sudden cardiac arrest and learns the appropriate behavior, movements and techniques that can contribute to saving his life. The first level of the game lasts 4-5 minutes, depending on the skills of the player. It is a point and click game, displayed on a PC computer.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Serious Game

Intervention Type OTHER

Online course

Participants in the lecture group will watch individually a 4-min video of a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover narration, given in the medical school of Paris Descartes University. The video is edited to contain the same informations on out-of-hospital cardiac management than the serious game, with the same duration.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Online course

Intervention Type OTHER

Interventions

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Serious Game

Intervention Type OTHER

Online course

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Second-year medical students from the medical schools of Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot University who are not opposed to participate in the study.