Medphyz ... : Medical Physics Games

Medical Physics Games in Education

I had the wonderful opportunity to learn about educational tools and strategies from Cornell's Center for Teaching Innovation. One topic of interest was diving into some of the challenges educators face for those in professional tracks, such as medical residents, interns, and students as they follow their educational trajectories into professions. Being involved in Medical Physics training and education for quite some time, I have come to appreciate the challenges Medical Physics graduate students and residents often face, as time to dig deep into content required for competency in their practice must be balanced with the time devoted in completing their projects or clinical rotations.

Tools like flipping the classroom, digital media and resources, and other strategies which help create a safe learning environment heavily influence how well learners retain knowledge. Games can be a powerful tool to reinforce knowledge retention for youth. More recently, there has been a surge of research delving into how gaming could be deployed in medical education.

There are a tonne of great education resources for Medical Physics resources (in fact, there are perhaps too many... which gives me a point of entry into another project aimed and linking that content with learning objectives as defined in the IAEA syllabus for Radiation Oncology Medical Physics education). But, there were not a lot of 'fun' educational activities targeted in Medical Physics. So that is where this journey begins!

I've started compiling a list of medical physics educational games as well devoting some energy to make some. Below is a growing list. If you have some to share, please e-mail me your suggestions!