RADHunters: gamification in radiology perceptual education

Soham Banerjee; Rishabh Agarwal; William F. Auffermann

doi:10.1117/1.JMI.10.S1.S11905

27 March 2023 RADHunters: gamification in radiology perceptual education

Soham Banerjee, Rishabh Agarwal, William F. Auffermann

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Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol. 10, Issue S1, S11905 (March 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.10.S1.S11905

Abstract

Purpose

Gamification is used in several fields as an adjunct to standard educational methods but has found limited application in radiology to date. Gamification may be useful for teaching radiology skills typically acquired through experience, such as perceptual skills. The goal of our study is to use a gamified radiology workstation to teach skills related to identification of pulmonary nodules and evaluate for changes in trainee performance.

Approach

We constructed a game called RADHunters to teach perceptual skills related to identification of pulmonary nodules on chest radiographs. Control and experimental groups were tasked with identifying nodules on chest radiographs on two sets of cases. The experimental group received gamified training for nodule identification using RADHunters between case sets, while the control group did not. Performance at nodule identification, localization, and confidence were compared. A poststudy survey was administered to assess for participants’ thoughts about the gamified nodule detection training.

Results

Survey responses were very positive with p-values for all survey responses <0.001, indicating subjects felt this training was beneficial. Experimental and control groups had a statistically significant improvement in their ability to identify and localize nodules with p-values < 0.05. There was no significant difference between control and experimental groups. Neither group showed a statistically significant increase in their confidence in nodule localization.

Conclusions

Perceptual training using gamification may be a useful adjunct to conventional methods of radiology education.

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Soham Banerjee, Rishabh Agarwal, and William F. Auffermann "RADHunters: gamification in radiology perceptual education," Journal of Medical Imaging 10(S1), S11905 (27 March 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.10.S1.S11905

Received: 15 November 2022; Accepted: 17 February 2023; Published: 27 March 2023

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