Table 1.

Serious games in medical teaching activity.

Game name	Filed	Game type	Country and year	Game propose	Advantages	Reference
Cleft Island	Surgery	Online game	Thailand, 2019	To develop and evaluate the effectiveness of serious game to deliver knowledge	Improving students knowledge	(24)
EMERGE	Surgery	Online game	Germany, 2019	To test the effect of the game on students' declarative and procedural knowledge, as well as their satisfaction.	Increasing students declarative knowledge	(25)
PediatricSim	Pediatry	Online game	America, 2018	To teach and assess students performances on several critical pediatric scenarios	Improving students engagement and test result	(26)
NEOGAMES	Pediatry	Online game	China, 2020	To train students in neonatal resuscitation and to examine whether the game improves their long-term knowledge retention	Facilitating learning and promoting short-term and long-term knowledge retention	(27)
AntibioGame®	Lemology	Online game	France, 2019	To evaluate the usability and playability of the game	Improving students knowledge in antibiotic prescription	(28)
Hygie	Continuing medical education	Prototype video game	France, 2019	To evaluate the effectiveness and satisfaction of the game	Promoting CME in an effective, pleasant, and evidence-based way.	(29)
“spaced-education” game	Continuing medical education	Electronic questionnaire	America, 2012	To assess the efficacy of the game as a method of CME among physicians.	Substantially improving guidlines knowledge and is a well-accepted method by students	(30)
InsuOnline©	Continuing medical education	Questionnaire	Brasil, 2015	To improve the knowledge of undergraduate students and medicine residents about insulin therapy	A good option for large-scale continuing medical education on diabetes.	(31)
Fydlyty	Quality-oriented education	Online game	Canada, 2017	To improve medical-based cultural competence education	Providing an engaging, easily accessible and modifiable, and cost-effective cultural competence training tool	(32)
Happy families	Physiotherapy education	Card game	Belgium, 2022	To assist learners to develop their clinical reasoning proficiency and help learners develop adaptive expertise	Improving students clinical reasoning capacity	(33)
GridlockED	Emergency	Board game	Canada, 2019	To identify teaching points to which learners are exposed while playing the game.	Creating opportunities for engaging medical learners in systems-level teaching	(34)
COVIDgame	Epidemiology	Offline Game	China, 2021	To explore the effectiveness of the game for improving medical students' COVID-19 knowledge	Improving students knowledge retention	(35)
eMedOffice	Medical practice	Computer-aided game	Germany, 2011	To teach medical students the organizational and conceptual basics of the medical practice of a general practitioner	Promoting the future development of more effective serious games	(36)
APS Game	Health care education	Online game	Brazil, 2019	To compare the influence of the game dedicated to primary health care with traditional learning methods on students knowledge	Improving the students' knowledge effectively	(37)