What’s Your Diagnosis? A Rapid Inquiry–Based Game To Differentiate and Review Medically Important Microbes

摘要

The ability to conduct the process of scientific inquiry, that is, formulating and testing hypotheses and evaluating the data to refine understanding, is considered one of the core competencies across scientific disciplines (1–3). There is ample evidence in the literature showing that games and active learning can simulate real-world problems and engage students, promoting critical thinking and application (4–8). To assist allied health students in learning the process of scientific inquiry we developed a game, “What’s Your Diagnosis?,” that applies their knowledge of medically important microbes to identify a microbe from a group of diverse and related organisms.