Jean Dit Gautier Estelle, Bot-Robin Virginie, Libessart Aurélien, Doucède Guillaume, Cosson Michel, Rubod Chrystèle
Department of Gynecology Surgery, Hopital Jeanne de Flandre, University of Lille, Lille cedex, France.
Department of Gynecology, Centre hospitalier de Seclin, Seclin, France.
JMIR Serious Games. 2016 Dec 21;4(2):e21. doi: 10.2196/games.5526.
The emergence of new technologies in the obstetrical field should lead to the development of learning applications, specifically for obstetrical emergencies. Many childbirth simulations have been recently developed. However, to date none of them have been integrated into a serious game.
Our objective was to design a new type of immersive serious game, using virtual glasses to facilitate the learning of pregnancy and childbirth pathologies. We have elaborated a new game engine, placing the student in some maternity emergency situations and delivery room simulations.
A gynecologist initially wrote a scenario based on a real clinical situation. He also designed, along with an educational engineer, a tree diagram, which served as a guide for dialogues and actions. A game engine, especially developed for this case, enabled us to connect actions to the graphic universe (fully 3D modeled and based on photographic references). We used the Oculus Rift in order to immerse the player in virtual reality. Each action in the game was linked to a certain number of score points, which could either be positive or negative.
Different pathological pregnancy situations have been targeted and are as follows: care of spontaneous miscarriage, threat of preterm birth, forceps operative delivery for fetal abnormal heart rate, and reduction of a shoulder dystocia. The first phase immerses the learner into an action scene, as a doctor. The second phase ask the student to make a diagnosis. Once the diagnosis is made, different treatments are suggested.
Our serious game offers a new perspective for obstetrical emergency management trainings and provides students with active learning by immersing them into an environment, which recreates all or part of the real obstetrical world of emergency. It is consistent with the latest recommendations, which clarify the importance of simulation in teaching and in ongoing professional development.
产科领域新技术的出现应推动学习应用的发展，特别是针对产科急症的应用。最近已开发出许多分娩模拟。然而，迄今为止，它们都尚未被整合到一款严肃游戏中。
我们的目标是设计一种新型沉浸式严肃游戏，使用虚拟眼镜来促进对妊娠和分娩病理情况的学习。我们精心制作了一个新的游戏引擎，将学生置于一些产科紧急情况和产房模拟场景中。
一名妇科医生最初根据真实临床情况编写了一个剧情。他还与一名教育工程师一起设计了一个树形图，作为对话和行动的指南。专门为此案例开发的一个游戏引擎使我们能够将行动与图形世界相连接（完全基于照片参考进行3D建模）。我们使用了Oculus Rift以使玩家沉浸在虚拟现实中。游戏中的每个行动都与一定数量的得分点相关联，这些得分点可以是正的或负的。
针对了不同的病理性妊娠情况，如下所示：自然流产的护理、早产威胁、因胎儿心率异常行产钳助产以及肩难产的处理。第一阶段将学习者作为医生沉浸在一个行动场景中。第二阶段要求学生做出诊断。一旦做出诊断，就会给出不同的治疗建议。
我们的严肃游戏为产科急诊管理培训提供了一个新视角，并通过将学生沉浸在一个重现全部或部分真实产科急诊世界的环境中，为他们提供了主动学习的机会。它符合最新建议，这些建议阐明了模拟在教学和持续专业发展中的重要性。
