Accepted Type
Oral
Code
OA2-2-1
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
- I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
- Yes, I have/had in the past 2 years, a financial interest, arrangement, or affiliation with one or more organizations that could be perceived as a direct/indirect conflict of interest in the context/content of the subject of this or any other presentation.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
yes
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Innovation
Will the presenter be a:
Other
Presenter Other
Senior Research and Innovation Advisor
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
An online CPD program on keeping medical records using a serious gaming approach. You can't be serious, right?
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
About 25% of physicians in Quebec do not create and maintain medical records properly according to our physician professional order (CMQ). Our organization had to develop an educational intervention to address this important unperceived gap, which was judged uninteresting as per participants.
Summary of the Innovation
We created a 1.5-hour online knowledge self-assessment program. Coached by Hippocrates himself; participants must solve various vignettes developed from CMQ's medical record keeping regulations. A validated questionnaire based on the Theory of Planned Behavior was used to measure participants' behavioral intention post intervention.
Launched in March 2016, 180 specialist physicians have registered to this course (completion rate: 74%). Participants agreed or totally agreed that a serious gaming approach was appropriated for this topic (95%) and all reported that this course met their learning objectives. Self-reported confidence to respect good practices in record keeping increased by 21%. 97% of the participants would participate again in a serious gaming CPD activity. A mean CPD REACTION score of 6.2/7 indicated that the program was efficient to promote participants' intention to respect good practices in record keeping.
From the early development phase, we knew that meaningful vignettes were required to maintain participants' engagement. A CMQ representative was involved in the development of real-life scenarios. We also created a short humoristic and appealing video to facilitate recruitment.
Conclusion
Using a serious gaming approach for this program convinced our organization that taking an unconventional educational path with our learners is feasible. We are now exploring broader instructional design avenues for upcoming programs.
Keyword 1
CPD
Keyword 2
Serious gaming
Keyword 3
Online learning
Level of Training
CPD (faculty development, CME)
Abstract Themes
Continuing Medical Education
Additional Theme (First choice)
Continuing Medical Education
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Professionalism
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Martin Tremblay
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
