An Educational Game Evening for Medical Residents: A Proof of Concept to Evaluate the Impact on Learning of the Use of Games

Théo Ghelfenstein-Ferreira; Anne-Lise Beaumont; Sarah Dellière; Nathan Peiffer-Smadja; Nicolas Pineros; Etienne Carbonnelle; Gilbert Greub; Salam Abbara; Liem Binh Luong Nguyen; Mathilde Lescat

doi:10.1128/jmbe.00119-21

An Educational Game Evening for Medical Residents: A Proof of Concept to Evaluate the Impact on Learning of the Use of Games

J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2021 Jul 30;22(2):e00119-21. doi: 10.1128/jmbe.00119-21. eCollection 2021 Fall.

Authors

Théo Ghelfenstein-Ferreira¹, Anne-Lise Beaumont², Sarah Dellière^{3

4}, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja^{5

4

6}, Nicolas Pineros⁷, Etienne Carbonnelle^{1

4

6

7}, Gilbert Greub⁸, Salam Abbara^#⁹, Liem Binh Luong Nguyen^#^{4

6

10}, Mathilde Lescat^{1

4

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire de Microbiologie Clinique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Paris Seine-Saint-Denis Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Bobigny, France.
² Service de Maladies Infectieuses, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France.
³ Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France.
⁴ Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁵ Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France.
⁶ INSERM, IAME, Paris, France.
⁷ Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Epinay Villetaneuse, France.
⁸ Institut de Microbiologie, Département des Laboratoires, Université de Lausanne, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁹ Institut Pasteur, U1018 Inserm, UVSQ, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Centre d'Investigation Clinique, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Insufficient knowledge of bacteria and antimicrobials leads to the emergence of multidrug-resistant-bacterium infections. Diversification of the teaching forms, such as the use of games, could be a solution. We organized an event around 3 games (Bacteria Game, KROBS, and Dawaa) to collect student feedback on the evening and assess their knowledge before and after the evening using multiple-choice questions. The preliminary results suggest a positive effect of this event, but due to the low number of participants, we see this report more as a proof of concept to assess the impact of games on the learning.

Keywords: educational games; evaluation; feedback.