Serious gaming and gamification education in health professions: systematic review

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Gentry, Sarah Victoria ^a,b   Gauthier, Andrea ^c   Ehrstrom, Beatrice L'Estrade ^d   Wortley, David ^e   Lilienthal, Anneliese ^d   Car, Lorainne Tudor ^f   Dauwels Okutsu, Shoko ^f   Nikolaou, Charoula K ^g   Zary, Nabil ^d,f,h   Campbell, James ⁱ   Car, Josip ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Royal Society of Arts   (United Kingdom)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^h MOHAMMED VI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Morocco)

ⁱ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Education; Professional; Review; Video games

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VIDEO GAME;

FEMALE; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 85063940575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/12994     Document Type: Review

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