The person-centred care game: a reflective tool for learning person-centred care in higher education [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Abstract

Person-centred care (PCC) is being implemented within many health care systems and educational institutions are important enablers of learning PCC. Teachers in higher education are responsible for helping students develop the ability to reflect. One approach is with serious games, which allow students to reflect on realistic situations and shape their skills with virtual patients. This paper describes the development of a serious game, the person-centred care game – (PCC game), which was designed to promote learning of PCC by reflection. We demonstrated how this PCC game could be used to induce PCC knowledge and skills by student reflection in an academic course on PCC.

Keywords

• Person-centred care
• serious game
• reflection
• higher education
• eng