Central Hospital — Master of Resuscitation: An immersive learning approach

Medical knowledge has increased exponentially in the last decades. Healthcare professionals face a life-time challenge in medical education right from the beginning of medical school. They experience serious difficulties to keep updated. Traditional adult education, largely used in medical training, shows little effectiveness. Problem-based-learning has been proposed as a student-centered pedagogy to overcome failure of traditional medical instruction. In recent years there has been a growing interest in using video games for educational purposes. Stand Clear is developing an on-line, game-based learning tool for medical education and training. These games combine the concepts of serious games with the concepts of casual games. By associating clinical simulation and a problem centered approach to whenever-wherever-availability, it will perfectly fit into what the authors believe will be the future of pre- and postgraduate lifetime education.