Integrating Statistics And Systems-Based Content In Undergraduate Medical Education Using A Novel Competitive Game—“The Study Puzzles”

Keywords

Active learning; Discovery learning; Game-based learning; Integration; Statistics education

Abstract

Educators and professionals recognize the importance for inclusion of statistics in contemporary medical education programs and advocate its consideration for curricular integration. Given medical students’ perceptions about statistics, educators must explore pedagogical strategies that foster student engagement, ensure relevance of content, improve motivation and self-efficacy, and, ultimately, facilitate long-term retention of content knowledge. Games, with and without competitive elements, have been implemented successfully in both statistics and medical education. This paper presents a competitive game, known as “study puzzles,” that integrates statistics content with other systems-based content in the undergraduate medical education curriculum through the use of published research articles.

Publication Date

9-1-2015

Publication Title

Medical Science Educator

Volume

25

Issue

3

Number of Pages

345-356

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-015-0153-3

Socpus ID

85061938594 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85061938594

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