With the increasing demand for clinical teaching in gastroenterology, the traditional lecture-based teaching model presents challenges in dietary care training, including limited practical opportunities, insufficient student initiative, and insufficient clinical scenario simulation. To enhance students' practical skills and clinical thinking in dietary care, this study introduces an immersive educational game, combining real clinical cases with virtual interactive scenarios to achieve a close connection between theory and practice. An immersive dietary care educational game experiment is conducted among students enrolled in clinical practice in the Department of Gastroenterology. The experimental design includes case selection and processing, task design, standardized patient interaction, and the use of supplementary teaching tools, covering four core components: case analysis, nutritional risk assessment, personalized dietary plan design, and communication and interaction. After optimizing the process through a pilot experiment, a rating scale and questionnaire are used to collect student data on knowledge acquisition, operational skills, interactive experience, and satisfaction. The experiment shows that students generally rate the immersive dietary care educational game highly, with an average score of 4.56 out of 5, indicating that this teaching model receives positive feedback in terms of interactivity, fun, immersion, and learning motivation. Among them, "scene immersion" scores the highest, with an average of 4.75 points, indicating that the virtual clinical environment and situational case design can effectively enhance students' sense of involvement.

Weiyang Chen, Hua Huang, Rong Chen. Application of an Immersive Dietary Nursing Education Game in Clinical Teaching of Gastroenterology. International Journal of World Medicine (2022), Vol. 3, Issue 1: 13-22. https://doi.org/10.38007/IJWM.2022.030102.

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