Prepare your students for their OSCE with serious games

Sunday, 8th September 2024 - 13:00 to 14:30

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Timezone:

CEST (Brussels time)

Duration:

90 minutes

HP3

Session synopsis:

We are an alliance of European teachers and researchers from 6 universities that aim to share innovative practices on teaching and construct digital tools to prepare OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations). The Erasmus+ project, with acronym DOMINOS, focuses on implementing innovative training tools for healthcare students (medicine, pharmacy and dentistry) to better prepare them to take their OSCE.

In detail, the aims of the workshop will be:

to present the delegates a way to create digital OSCE in the form of serious games, using the AI-driven software VTS;
to develop the approach to create the scenario according to a common blueprint and the review process to ensure the stations would fit with national curricula;
to present the LMS platform with the library created, in multiples formats to enable transferability, and that hosts the test sessions and tools for students and teachers for preparing OSCEs;
to test the scenarios.

The registered participants will be registered in the Moodle platform and will be invited to fill a questionnaire in advance. They will also be asked to do so at the end of the experience.

Following an introduction to the Erasmus+ KA2 DOMINOS project, the session will be delivered through a presentation of the work approach taken within our European project DOMINOS not only by providing an overview of the project objectives but also the results of the pilot testing with the students. Time will be also dedicated to briefly describe the Serious Factory VTS editor and the opportunities offered by working in the Moodle environment. Enough time will be allowed to the participants to split in groups and test 2 scenarios on different dental specialties. A debriefing session will then allow a discussion and overall evaluation of the experience.

Programme:

13:00	Welcome
13:05	Overview of the Erasmus+ project
13:20	Technical challenges
13:30	Separate sessions of Serious Games OSCE in Dentistry
14:15	Summary / Close

Chair:

Katleen Vandamme

Professor of Periodontology

KU Leuven

Katleen is professor of periodontology at the KU Leuven Belgium, where she also holds the position of Coordinator of the Institute of Osseointegration KU Leuven since 2016. She has authored more than 70 research papers and her research interests include evidence-based Dentistry, biomedical (oral health) sciences, mechanobiology in implant osseointegration, implant surface properties, bone biology (in particular impaired bone conditions such as diabetes), skeletal tissue engineering, osteoprogenitor cell biology, teaching modalities and analytics. Katleen is a member of ADEE's regional council and chair of this years ADEE local organising committee.

Speakers:

Claudine Wulfman

Professor of Prosthodontics

Université Paris Cité

Claudine is Professor of Prosthodontics at the Université Paris Cité in France. After heading the prosthodontics department at Université Paris Cité, she is currently head of the dental department at Hôpital Henri-Mondor. The author of 30 research articles, she is interested in complete denture, biomaterials and CAD/CAM (zirconia, prosthetic teeth, denture base materials for dental prostheses) as well as education, from OSCE to the value of digital technology in teaching complete denture, particularly serious games. She is coordinator of the DOMINOS Erasmus plus project, aimed at preparing European health students for the OSCE.

Janja Jan

Professor of Cariology and Endodontology

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana

Janja is Professor of Cariology and Endodontology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She is Head of the Department of Dental Diseases and Endodontics and Vice Dean of Dental Medicine. Her main areas of research are cariology, endodontology and dental education. She leads the dental team in Ljubljana as part of the DOMINOS project.

Daniela Debiase

Sapienza University of Rome

Daniela is Professor and vice-president of one of Medicine and Surgery courses at Sapienza University of Rome. She teaches in both Dentistry and Dental prosthodontics, and Medicine and Surgery courses, entirely taught in English, with students from all over the world. She is Erasmus Coordinator of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, and actively involved in different Erasmus projects. In the DOMINOS project, she leads the Sapienza team (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry) and the Work Package 4, dedicated to the DOMINOS Moodle platform where OSCEs are made available to students. This platform will be used during this workshop.

Umberto Romeo

Head Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences

Sapienza University of Rome

Umberto is Professor and Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences in Sapienza University of Rome. Head of the Unit of Oral Surgery in the University Hospital "Policlinico Umberto I" in Rome. He teaches, Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery, in both courses of Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics and Medicine and Surgery, in Italian and English language. He is Erasmus Coordinator of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry for the Dental School. He is involved in the DOMINOS project in the WP2 and WP3 for Dentistry.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the session, delegates will:

Have insight into the design and structure of different OSCE scenarios, ‘play’ these and provide feedback on the overall experience;
Be able to use this kind of digital OSCE experience and compare it with the tools (if any) currently available at their home institutions;
Be able to discuss the common educational approaches and the future developments in dental educational using AI-driven digital tools.