L12: Are You Ready to Be an Expert in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine?
Subject: 738 - Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology Case Presentations
Subject: 738 - Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology Case Presentations
Credits: 1 Lecture
Thursday, June 18: 1 to 1:50 p.m.
Audience: DTC (D, H, A, O, T), ST
Fee: Free with Registration!
Location: Exhibit Hall - Learning Lab I
Speaker bio: Westwood, CA; private practice; Director and Professor,
Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine Center, Division of Diagnostic Sciences, Ostrow
School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Description: This
50 minute presentation will introduce the audience to how game based education
can be used to help improve clinical care. Using a custom built program we have
created a “single player standardized virtual patient game” designed to teach
interview skills and assess treatment planning/decision making choices. This
game is being prepared as an APP that can be downloaded onto an iPAD tablet
with a selection of patient cases. The rationale behind the game is that while
all practicing dentists will see patients with complex orofacial pain and oral
facial pathologies, but they are often unsure of what to do. Many of these
patients are referred right away and thus the practicing dentist gets little
opportunity to improve their interview skills and test their clinical decision
making performance.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how game based learning can facilitate professional education.
- Understand how the process called “iterative hypothesis testing” is built into the game and how it can improve the clinician’s interview and decision making skills.
- Be able to download and try out the DDS detective APP and then test their skills to see if they can achieve an “expert” level performance.
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