Public access to medical games is limited and no access standard exists¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2023: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The review found no standard for providing access to games: some developers sell via URL, few offer free public use, and most do not explain how to access their games. → Gorbanev Iouri 2018

Evidence¶

Gorbanev Iouri 2018¶

Gorbanev Iouri, Agudelo-Londoño Sandra, González Rafael A., Cortes Ariel, Pomares Alexandra, Delgadillo Vivian, Yepes Francisco J., Muñoz Óscar. (2018). A systematic review of serious games in medical education: quality of evidence and pedagogical strategy. Medical Education Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2018.1438718

q3 · i? · review · r3

Authors' observation from the reviewed corpus: "We did not detect any standard for providing access to games"; few games were freely available and none were promoted by prestigious publishing houses.

"We did not detect any standard for providing access to games. Some developers publish the URL to their game and try to sell it; few developers upload games for free public use, and most of them do not explain how to get access to their games."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Educational game adoption is hindered along socio-cultural, educational, and technological dimensions, including social rejection, limited accessibility to games and technology, and high development costs.
• Game implementations were mostly single-institution and single-setting, limiting evidence quality and diffusion
• Behaviourism and cognitivism are the predominant pedagogical strategies among medical-game developers — related