New from UW! Games and Simulation for Healthcare Library and Database

Eric Bauman and his colleagues ad the University of Wisconsin have just published a wonderful new resource for those who want to integrate games and simulation into their scholarship and patient care strategy. It's called the Games and Simulation for Healthcare Library and Database. The site includes an entire inventory of items dealing with everything from anatomy to disaster preparedness to patient education. One can search by vendor, audience, platform, and topic or any combination of these. I did a quick search using the audience "attending physicians" and the platform "iPhone" and came up with three items including an ACLS review tool using 800 flash cards, an interactive anatomy tool, and another set of flash cards for the iPhone. Searching Second Life currently yielded 17 clinical simulation sites including our own SLICE2 (just renamed the NewWorld Initiative for Clinician Education). The site also includes a listing of associations and labs as well as current news/events and reference materials. Anyone with an interest in patient and clinician education, and clinical research taking advantage of games and simulation-based learning will want to bookmark this site: http://projects.hsl.wisc.edu/healthcaregames/