Use doctors’ competitive nature to drive improvement, researchers say

Team based games increase doctors’ participation in learning about quality improvement, researchers have found.

A US study found that methods such as “game mechanics” can be effective and “powerfully motivating” in leading to more learner involvement in quality improvement education. A team from the University of California Los Angeles and other institutions has published their findings in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.1

The researchers said that the results “suggest an important role for the social context of education as a lever to …