Shared decision making: a serious game based on OSCE for clinicians

2022-8-31
Sülün, Ahmet
Shared decision making(SDM) is an essential process to improve outcomes and reflect patient views in medical consultation. In SDM, the treatment that patient will take is a decision reached by the participation of both the clinician and the patient. To achieve SDM, clinicians should explain possible treatment options with their pros and cons and encourage patients to join in the process, and patients should state their ideas about the options and preferences about the outcomes. This process follows three steps in the three-talk model of SDM. In the first step, clinicians describe the decision-making process to patients. In the second step, clinicians describe treatment options and possible outcomes. In the final step, the clinician and the patient together reach a decision considering the patient’s preferences. However, while the current health systems put some barriers to this process, such as limited and short time spared for consultation, there are other barriers too, such as patients seeing the clinician as the final decision authority in the medical domain or clinicians not knowing or being unwillingly about how to reach patients. Serious games, as being games that not only entertain, are mediums widely used in the medical domain and education. It provides an environment for the players where they can exercise, practice, and learn. This thesis aims to design a dialogue-based serious game for physiotherapists to improve their SDM actualization skills and create an environment where clinicians can practice the SDM process. For this aim, the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) method, which is commonly used in medical education and provides a pseudo or virtual patient for students, will be used to design the game.

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Citation Formats
A. Sülün, “Shared decision making: a serious game based on OSCE for clinicians,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.