“Surgerious tweezers”: exploring doctors’ perception!

• Author(s): Fonseca, Tiago Filipe Rodrigues ; Costa, Gonçalo Jorge Morais da ; Silva, Nuno Sotero Alves da
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11144/363
• Origin: Camões - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Serious games; medicine,; doctors awareness; qualitative analysis
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Serious games are a key component within technological mashups that characterise future learning environments, namely in medicine. Recent empirical studies denote ambiguous results about their role or influence in education or training; however, this paper explores Portuguese doctors’ awareness regarding serious games, their advantages/disadvantages within training and probable ethical impacts in their medical practices through a qualitative interview. The reason for this contribution is literature disregard pertaining to medical staff awareness, because its current focus entails: games applications, features or design; medical practices for clinical decision making; surgical techniques; acquiring knowledge/skills; and, limitations in the prior dimensions.