Introduction

Scientific works are routinely presented at medical congresses, contributing to the informal communication of scientific knowledge among scientists in a context of a restricted number of researchers. QR codes facilitate access to scientific production and promote more dynamic learning, and the Poster-Quiz is a tool we used to explore such works by means of QR codes.

Objectives

To report on the creation and development of a Poster-Quiz as an innovative form of displaying works at a medical congress, with a view to encouraging reading of the works exhibited in the digital totems, disseminating and highlighting the importance of scientific research and its authors.

Experience report

A methodolody developed by students and professors of the Medicine course at UniEVANGÉLICA – University Centre of Anápolis, involving periodic meetings to propose the use of QR codes to set questions about previously read abstracts displayed in e-posters. This process included the participation of seven students, one professor and 47 congress participants. The experiment was conducted with the use of banners with QR codes corresponding to questions about the content of six digital totems spread around the event, response cards and an urn for collection of the cards, which were corrected automatically. Upon finding a banner, the congress participants used a QR code reader app to access the questions relative to that totem in the specific period and then had to read the works presented or watch a presentation of the e-poster in order to answer the questions. The mobile app Merrit®, using a smartphone camera was employed to identify the answers to the objective questions, comparing them to a previously established answer sheet. There were 150 quiz questions in all and the top-performing respondents achieved scores of 51.33%, 50.66% and 46.66% correct answers. The average score was around 40.66% correct answers. At the end of the event, the top three respondents were awarded. The participants were also asked to give their opinion on the quiz experience in order to lend credibility to the practice.

Conclusion

The importance of this activity resides, above all, in promoting the works exposed in order to spark the interest of the congress participants, as well as encouraging greater integration between the participants and provoking them to pay closer attention to the information exhibited. We should highlight the positive impact of an activity which is clearly different to the others found at the congress, and which added a competitive element that enhanced the main objective of learning. The use of this new technology had an auspicious outcome, seeing as the creation of a competitive challenge promoted intellectual benefits, such as the aquisition of reading abilities and learning about matters that are given little attention at university. The effectiveness of the quiz derives from a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and interest among the participants, authors of the works and the organizers of the Poster-Quiz.

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