Serious educational game for burn management covering eight content domains with mastery-based progression and instructor feedback

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A serious game developed by a multidisciplinary team of software engineers and academic faculty to teach burn management to medical students. Content spans domains such as "Basic Concepts of Burns", "Burn Assessment", "Burn Diagnosis", escharotomy and fasciotomy procedures, fluid resuscitation calculation, referral decision-making, communication and professionalism, and ethics. Students view instructional videos, answer time-limited questions, and receive automated correctness indicators, explanatory text, and instructor-recorded video explanations; incorrect answers require feedback review before advancing, and progression requires a minimum accuracy threshold of 60% per stage.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Access to the software platform with individual login credentials during the one-week burn rotation
• Multidisciplinary design collaboration and expert content review to establish content validity

Constraints

• Engagement and effectiveness were evaluated in a pilot phase and a single-center trial; effectiveness may be influenced by alignment between task complexity and learner expertise, including a potential reverse expertise effect among novice learners

Target Learners

• Medical students beginning burn clinical rotations with no prior burn management experience

Learning Goals

• Burn assessment and diagnosis
• Burn management procedures and fluid resuscitation
• Referral decision-making, communication, professionalism, and ethics in burn care

Claims

• Serious Game Burn Mini Cex Total Score [+M]
• Serious Game Burn Student Satisfaction [+M]

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Key Sources

• Deldar Kolsoum, Tavousi Seyed Hasan, Ahmadabadi Ali, Rakhsha Mohsen, Khodabandeloo Farnoosh, Froutan Razieh. (2026). Enhancing clinical competence in burn management through a serious educational game: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-026-09970-6

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id	burn-management-serious-game-platform
title	Serious educational game for burn management covering eight content domains with mastery-based progression and instructor feedback
description	A serious game developed by a multidisciplinary team of software engineers and academic faculty to teach burn management to medical students.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-04
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sources	1 — deldar-kolsoum-2026

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