BMC Medical Education

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An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: development, feasibility and acceptability

Elie A Akl1,2*, Reem Mustafa1, Thomas Slomka3,4, Alia Alawneh1, Abhishek Vedavalli1 and Holger J Schünemann5,6

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA

2 Department of Family Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA

3 Educational Technology Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA

4 Digital Library Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA

5 CLARITY Research Group, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

6 Department of Epidemiology, Italian National Cancer Institute Regina Elena, Rome, Italy

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BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:50 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-8-50

Published: 18 November 2008

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Additional file 1:

Systematic approach for developing the content of the Guide-O-Game©.

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Additional file 2:

Clinical practice guidelines currently included in the Guide-O-Game©.

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Additional file 3:

Rules of the "Classic" and "Rally" playing strategies.

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