ECOSF co-organized a Webinar on Enhancing Clinical Reasoning Skills Through Interactive and Gamified Virtual Case Scenarios

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The ECOSF in collaboration with Smart University Medical Sciences (SmUMS), Iran, organized an engaging webinar titled "Enhancing Clinical Reasoning Skills through Interactive and Gamified Virtual Case Scenarios” on October 12, 2024. The session was led by Mr. Hasnain Zafar Baloch from the International Medical University, Malaysia, and brought together a diverse audience of healthcare educators, instructional designers, and clinical simulation experts.

With healthcare education increasingly relying on virtual platforms prior to hospital-based training, this webinar highlighted the importance of providing learners with risk-free environments to hone their diagnostic skills. The integration of gamification into clinical scenarios offers an exciting opportunity to transform traditional training methodologies and achieve better learning outcomes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of healthcare education, pushing for rapid innovation to address challenges in clinical training. Virtual simulation technologies have emerged as a critical tool, enabling healthcare professionals to develop essential skills in safe, controlled environments. This webinar highlighted the transformative potential of virtual clinical scenarios and gamification in fostering diagnostic and critical reasoning skills among learners.

Key takeaways of the webinar:

• The webinar introduced gamified, goal-oriented virtual environments that authentically simulate real-world clinical cases.
• The integration of patient narratives, pathophysiological discussions, and investigative tools into virtual platforms demonstrated an innovative approach to enhancing learner engagement and knowledge retention.
• Participants explored hands-on methods to design branching scenarios and learned to incorporate game elements such as points, badges, leaderboards, and narrative progression into clinical simulations.