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A Medical Training Game Using a Computer as a Teaching Aid

1963; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 2; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1055/s-0038-1636216

2511-705X

Arthur D. Kirsch,

Innovations in Educational Methods

The Datatrol Corporation has developed a model for a computerized medical training game to be used as a teaching aid. This training game will utilize a computer capable of generating, from probability tables, synthetic patients who will exhibit symptoms guaranteed possible with an accuracy probability plus or minus a fixed percent. The symptoms of these synthetically generated patients will be presented to medical personnel and / or students for diagnosis. Approximately ten students may play the game simultaneously, each following their individual line of diagnosis. They will be allowed, if they desire, to request past historical data and to conduct laboratory tests and have synthetic results generated. As mentioned in the body of the paper, outside assistance will be sought for the preparation of various tables of probabilities needed for the game. The game is visualized as providing a contribution to medical education that could be used in conjunction with student medical meetings, professional meetings, or a tour of medical school centers. In order to allow this game to be used on the various standard computers that might be available at different medical schools or medical centers, the programs will be written in a generalized computer language such as FORTRAN. Possible fringe benefits of this game would be its use as an experimental research tool.