This session will introduce the participant to gamification and its ability to augment formative assessment in the classroom. You will be equipped with a framework to successfully integrate gamification into your curriculum. We will review our experiences utilizing formative question banks in the digital space as well as game experiences in the physical classroom. Finally we will review helpful resources to get you started!
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Presenter Bios
Michelle A. Carroll Turpin, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She earned her PhD in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience at LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport in 2015. Upon graduation from LSUHSC-S, she was hired as an assistant professor of pharmacology and served as co-director and director of the pre-clerkship curriculum of the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine, before joining the Tilman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine in 2019. She is experienced in medical school instruction, course and module directorship, curriculum development, accreditation, and medical school admissions. Her teaching expertise includes general principles of pharmacology, introductory toxicology and pharmacology specific to all organ systems, with particular interest in adrenergic, cardiovascular and respiratory pharmacology.
Jeremey Walker is an assistant professor in infectious diseases at the University of Alabama in Birmingham with clinical interest in transplant and infection prevention. He has the privilege of working with medical students as co-director of the Microbiology block in first year and as longitudinal learning community mentor. His interest in gamification developed through his work in microbiology and has now blossomed to applications outside of a classroom setting including an international game focused on ID fellows (twitter handle: @IDFellowscup) and clinically within the realm of infection prevention.