Dark Play of Serious Games: Effectiveness and Features (G4HE2018).

Choosing inappropriate or unethical actions in games is referred to as dark play. For a serious game on delirium for medical students, we aimed to investigate the potential differences between dark play and normal play on game effectiveness regarding abilities in advising care, learning motivation and engagement, and attitude toward delirious patients. Furthermore, we aimed to explore the use of different game features between the two types of play on empathy, self-efficacy, and consequences of care.

Longitudinal training and assessing consultation competence, a role for self reflection on performance.

Medical consultation (patient-doctor encounter), consisting of history taking, physical examination and treatment, is the starting point of any contact between doctor and patient. Learning to conduct a consultation is a complex skill. Both communicative and medical contents need to be applied and integrated.

[The elderly patient].

Many elderly have mild physical disorders. It is difficult to differentiate between the physiological symptoms of ageing and disorders in the elderly patient. Many disorders present as non-specific signs or symptoms in the elderly.