The objective of this study is to compare two forms of pre-training (an online narrative
presentation and a serious game) to prepare 2nd year medical students for a hands-on
training with physical simulators about out-of-hospital cardiac arrest management.

Serious Game Versus Online Course to Pre-train Medical Students on the Management of an Adult Cardiac Arrest.

Education, Medical, Undergraduate

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Simulation Training

Technology-enhanced simulation allows mastery learning. Mastery learning is a variety of
competency-based education which has demonstrated its efficacy for skills acquisition and
their transfer to actual settings. While traditional education defines fixed learning
time and allows outcomes to vary, in mastery learning, all trainees must achieve a
predefined level of proficiency while their learning time can vary. The main limitation
of mastery learning is that it takes more time than non-mastery learning. This is of
concern because the main barrier to simulation-based training is the lack of faculty
time. Thus, new solutions should emerge to conciliate mastery learning and time
constraints on physical simulators.

Pre-training with a "simulation game" may be a mean to reach this objective. Simulation
games are serious games which are at the cross roads between (1) educational games which
are "applications using the characteristics of video and computer games to create
engaging and immersive learning experiences", and (2) simulation, the imitation of
situations which can be encountered in real-life. They combine the advantages of
educational games (active, personalized learning) and simulation (realistic and safe
environment for experiential learning). By contrast, pre-training with an online course
using a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover narration lecture is both passive and
abstract.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the time-efficiency of pre-training using a
simulation game versus an online course to reach mastery learning in the management of an
adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Serious Game

Online course

Conciliating Mastery Learning and Time Constraints on High-fidelity Simulators: Serious Game Versus Online Course to Pre-train Medical Students on the Management of an Adult Cardiac Arrest.

Following the 2015 European Resuscitation Council guidelines, a checklist was developed
for this study. This checklist allows the assessors to evaluate the participant's
compliance with guidelines, and to determine if he/she needs to practice again on the
scenario or if he/she reached the minimum passing score and can stop the training.

The quality of the chest compressions provided is recorded automatically through the
ResusciAnne Skill Reporter Software (Laerdal, Norways), and is integrated in the
checklist.

Name: Checklist for performance score of SCA management This checklist was adapted from
the 2015 resuscitation guidelines. Points were given for the actions performed correctly
in sequence and in time(sequence score, 0 to 4),and for the quality of the chest
compressions (compression score,0 to 8). The minimum passing score on this checklist was
11 out of 12 (min 0-max 12), with the absolute requirement to score the maximum 4 points
on the sequence score.

Higher scores mean a better outcome.

Participants in the "serious game" group will be pre-trained before the hands-on sessions
with the serious game "Staying Alive", available at
http://www.stayingalive.fr/index_us.html This game aims at teaching the management of an
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to the general public and health professionals. In this
game, the player faces a man who has experienced sudden cardiac arrest and learns the
appropriate behavior, movements and techniques that can contribute to saving his life.
The first level of the game lasts 4-5 minutes, depending on the skills of the player. It
is a point and click game, displayed on a PC computer.

Participants in the lecture group will watch individually a 4-min video of a PowerPoint
presentation with voiceover narration, given in the medical school of Paris Descartes
University. The video is edited to contain the same informations on out-of-hospital
cardiac management than the serious game, with the same duration.

Serious Game Versus Online Course to Pre-train Medical Students on the Management of an Adult Cardiac Arrest.

About this trial

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Placebo

Accepting

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