What you should know:
1. Samir Grover, MD, presented on the gamification of endoscopy simulators at 2019 Canadian Digestive Disease Week, March 1-3 in Alberta. He found that incorporating game-like elements into simulators helped endoscopists during live colonoscopy.
2. Competition, rankings and rewards all enhanced procedural learning takeaways during the simulations.
3. Dr. Grover and colleagues studied 36 endoscopy trainees who had each performed fewer than 20 procedures. The trainees received six hours of one-on-one simulation training split between a benchtop endoscopy model and a virtual reality model. Eighteen of those participants had game design elements included in their simulations.
4. The group with game elements had statistically higher scores during two live colonoscopies, while nontechnical skills were similar between the two groups.
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