Learning clinical neurophysiology: gaming is better than lectures.

Full Abstract

We sought to find evidence for generalizability of a game and team oriented educational intervention in clinical neurophysiology in a neurology residency program. A prospective educational intervention was studied in a single neurology residency program and compared with a historical control. Seventeen PGY 2-4 residents studied neurophysiology in 2004-2005. The historical control was 20 PGY 2-4 residents from 1998 to 2002. The neurophysiology educational intervention consisted of weekly presentations, followed by a game show-type oral quiz which was team-based and required all residents to participate. The control group attended faculty-prepared didactic lectures. Outcome measures were percent correct subset neurophysiology Residency Inservice Training Examination scores. United States Medical Licensing Examination step 1 scores were also compared between the groups. Data were analyzed with analysis of variance methods accounting for multiple measurements. The mean+/-standard error neurophysiology subset percent correct Residency Inservice Training Examination score was 63.6+/-4.12 for the intervention group and 49.4+/-2.35 for the control (P=0.002). There was no difference in United States Medical Licensing Examination step 1 scores between the two groups (P=0.11). We found evidence for generalizability of the effectiveness of a team-oriented educational intervention in clinical neurophysiology with gaming and oral quizzing in improving subset Residency Inservice Training Examination performance compared with faculty prepared didactics.

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Author information

Author/s: Schuh, Lori (L); Burdette, David E (DE); Schultz, Lonni (L); Silver, Brian (B);

Affiliation: Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA. lschuh@neuro.hfh.edu

Grants: 5P01-NS23393 (Agency:United States NINDS) ; U01 NS038529-04A1 (Agency:United States NINDS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society (J Clin Neurophysiol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Jun; vol 25 (issue 3) : pp 167-9

Dates: Created 2008/06/19; Completed 2008/08/04;

PMID: 18469726, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Neurophysiology - education
Teaching - methods
United States
Video Games

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