Doctors Should Play Board Games to Get Better At Teamwork

The objective of the game is to remove jargon from explaining conditions, diseases, treatments. For example, you pick a card for example with the word migraine on it, while on the back of the card you also get 5 words to avoid. A brilliant way to force out jargon from the language of medicine! 4) Healing Blade: the (board) Game of Thrones for learning antibiotics As a medical student, you have to memorize plenty of information, which takes a lot of time and energy. And most of the times, there is no rational or logical explanation behind the labels, titles or a huge bulk of the material in general. Nerdcore Medical’s board game aims to help learn about antibiotics and bacteria. They placed the entire scene into a Game of Thrones-like setting. The world of Soma is under siege by the Lords of Pestilence. Hideous invaders like Anthrax, Pertussis, Cholera, and the Black Death are running rampant inside the country’s borders, attempting to murder innocents. The helpless people of Soma’s only hope is that the Apothecary Healers, their god-like saviors, will save them. That’s the description of the game itself. You already want to save the innocent people of Soma, don’t you? The real-life features of bacteria and antibiotics are described on various cards – with weird names which you will definitely remember. By playing it, you will learn how to treat bacteria with the right kinds of antibiotics in an exciting and playful way – without much less struggle than sitting...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Healthcare Design Medical Education board games future gamification gc4 Health 2.0 Hospital Innovation Medicine Source Type: blogs