1. Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Price is Right
$100,000 Pyramid
Sometimes It IS All
Fun and Games!
Family Feud
Tic Tac Throw
Gretchen Shelesky MD, Rachelle Busby PharmD BCPS, Ruta Marfatia MS MPH, Nicholas Owens PharmD,
Vincent Vargas MD, David Yuan MD
University of Pittsburgh- Department of Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship
UPMC St. Margaret Pharmacy Residency
Vancouver, April 27, 2010
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

2. Objectives
After active participation in this seminar, participants will be able to:
Demonstrate hyperlinking, animating, and importing sound into a PowerPoint presentation
Identify topics that can be used with PowerPoint templates presented
Identify at least three games/templates that can be used for teaching purposes
Create a game using available PowerPoint templates

3. Session Outline Introduction 10 min
2. Large group discussion: topics for 20 min
templates with examples
3. Activity: create presentations 30 min
4. Share activity experience creating min
presentation and discuss plans for use
Audience Assesment
5. Wrap-up and completion of evaluation 5 min
forms

4. Educational Games
“An instructional method requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules.”6

5. Why Use Games? Work hour rule Increasingly formal education
Half day didactic sessions
Need to keep residents engaged to enhance learning

6. Why Use Games? Learning by Active Learning Experiences Own actions
Discussions
Interaction with others
Active Learning Experiences
Stimulate higher thinking-analysis, synthesis and evaluation
Fun and exciting
Reduce stress and anxiety

7. How Games Work Knowles’ Theory of Adult Learning
Autonomous and self-directed
Past experiences become resources for learning
Goal-oriented
Learning is problem-centered

8. How To:
Hyperlink
Import Sound
Animate

10. What We Have Used Family Feud Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
$100,000 Pyramid
Price is Right
Tic-Tac-Throw
Jeopardy
Computerized board games

11. Large Group Activity

12. Family Feud Question Type: Rules: Attendance: Minimum 8 attendees
Questions with multiple answers
Rules:
Each team is a family
Individuals face off
Each member of the winning team guesses individually
Three strikes and it passes to the other team
Attendance: Minimum 8 attendees
Examples: Asthma
Rachelle

13. ‹ Medicine Pharmacy Edition Game Copyright © Created by Sarah Wood
Family Feud logo from
Pharmacy Edition 13

14. What are the top 5 selling brand-name drugs of 2009 ?
‹ Medicine
What are the top 5 selling brand-name drugs of 2009 ?
Game Copyright © Created by Sarah Wood
Family Feud logo from
Including outpatient injectables 14

15. 1 4 2 5 3 atorvastatin (Lipitor) fluticasone/salmeterol (Advair)
clopidogrel (Plavix) 2
infliximab (Remicade) 5
etanercept (Enbrel) 3
next
X X X
Exit Game 15

16. Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Question Type:
Multiple choice
True/False
Fill in the blank
Matching
Rules:
Single contestant or group
“5th grader” audience/another group
Cheats: copy, peek, save
Attendance: Minimum 5 attendees
Examples: Breast Cancer Screening
Dave
Rules need to be decided before the game
Personal experience 2-3 contestants better than indivdual

17. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

18. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
1,000,000
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
500,000
300,000
Fellow USPSTF
Fellow Mam interval
175,000
3rd year General screen
3rd year Mortality
100,000
50,000
2nd year Screen tests
2nd year Mam harms
25,000
Intern St. Mar History
Intern BrCan Screen
10,000
5,000
Student Screen
Student Steelers
2000
Mam = mammogram BrCan = Breast Cancer
1000

19. Fellow Mammogram Interval Question
Biennial screening maintained an average of what percent of the benefit of annual screening, with ½ the number of false positive results: a) 91% b) 81% c) 75% d) 71%

20. Fellow Mammogram Interval Answer
B) 81%
Return

21. $100,000 Pyramid Question Type: Rules: Attendance: Minimum 8 attendees
Questions with multiple answers
Rules:
1st round: Guess the words in the category
Lightening Round: Guess the category
What you are allowed and not allowed to say
Attendance: Minimum 8 attendees
Examples: $100,000 Psychiatric Pyramid
Dave
Rules need to be decided before the game
Personal experience 2-3 contestants better than indivdual

22. The $100,000 Psychiatric Pyramid

23. 6 4
Crazy
Things 1 2 3

24. Crazy Things
Describe for your partner in 30 seconds or less the symptoms of schizophrenia

25. Crazy Things 1. Delusions 2. Hallucinations 3. Alogia
4. Disorganized Speech
5. Catatonic Behavior
6. Echolalia
7. Flat affect

26. Lightning Round
Name for your partner things that fit each category OR what a patient would say if they have that disease. You may not describe the category OR the disease, only list items within it OR say what your patient would say.
You have one minute.
For example, if the category were “Things that are red,” you might say, “Apple, fire engines, cherries, and Bozo the Clown’s hair,” but you may not say, “a primary color, not blue or yellow.”

27. $$100,000 $50,000 $75,000 $10,000 $20,000 $35,000 State Capitals
Candy in
Charlie & the
Chocolate Factory
Anorexia
Nervosa
$50,000
$75,000
BRAINSTORM IDEAS!
Major
Depressive
d/o
Types of
Flowers
Generalized
Anxiety
d/o
$10,000
$20,000
$35,000

28. Price is Right Question Type: Rules: Attendance: Minimum 4 attendees
Questions that can be answered with numbers
Rules:
Picking teams to “come on down”
Random question followed by educational question
Attendance: Minimum 4 attendees
Examples: Blood Pressure Management
Vincent

30. Based on the Public Health Agency of Canada, what is the prevalence rate of HTN?

31. 18.1%
Source:

33. Risk Factor:
Diet
What is the recommended maximum amount of sodium in mg to be consumed in a day?

34. 2300 mg
Source:

35. Tic-Tac-Throw Question Type: Multiple choice Rules: 2 teams
True/False
Fill in the blank
Matching
Rules: 2 teams
If answer is correct, get X or O
If incorrect, same or different space with new question
Win beans bags: 1 or 3 bags to throw
Attendance: Minimum 2 attendees
Examples: Ideal Medical Practice
Nick

37. 1-1
2-1
3-1
1-2
2-2
3-2
4-1
Go Pens!
6-1
4-2
6-2
5-2
7-1
8-1
9-1
7-2
8-2
9-2

38. Go Pens! What is the name of the new Penguins’ Arena? The Consol
Energy Center

39. Small Group Activity Break into your groups
Each group works with one game
Each individual will have paper templates
Small group facilitators have e-templates
Begin a presentation with a topic chosen by group consensus
Hand out evaluations

40. Summary Demonstrated hyperlinking, animating,
and importing sound into a PowerPoint presentation
Identified topics that can be used with PowerPoint templates presented
Identified at least three games/templates that can be used for teaching purposes
Created a game using available PowerPoint templates

41. Resources Free templates Inexpensive website to buy templates
Inexpensive website to buy templates
FTC publishing:
Teachers pay teachers:

42. References
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3. Howard MG, Collins HL, DiCarlo SE. "Survivor" torches "Who Wants to Be a Physician?" in the educational games ratings war. Adv Physiol Educ Dec;26(1-4):30-6.
4. Mann BD, Eidelson BM, Fukuchi SG, Nissman SA, Robertson S, Jardines L. The development of an interactive game-based tool for learning surgical management algorithms via computer. Am J Surg Mar;183(3):305-8.
5. O'Leary S, Diepenhorst L, Churley-Strom R, Magrane D. Educational games in an obstetrics and gynecology core curriculum. Am J Obstet Gynecol Nov;193(5):
6. Akl EA, Sackett K, Pretorius R, Erdley S, Bhoopathi PS, Mustafa R, Schunemann HJ. Educational games for health professionals. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 1 Art No.: CD DOI: / CD pub2

43. Questions?