Poster detailing efforts to build a library/portal for healthcare games & simulations. Eric Bauman, Allan Barclay, Ulrike Dieterle, Sam P. Seider & Gaura Saini, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presented at Int'l Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare 2009. Portal is located at http://projects.hsl.wisc.edu/healthcaregames.
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Games & Simulations for Healthcare: Building a Library for Clinicians and Educators
1. Games & Simulations for Healthcare: Building a Library for Clinicians and Educators
Eric Bauman, Allan Barclay, Ulrike Dieterle, Sam P. Seider & Gaura Saini
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Department of Anesthesiology
Ebling Library for the Health Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
BACKGROUND POSSIBLE FUTURE DIRECTIONS
1) Basic Inventory - current phase; raw
Technology plays an increasingly inte-
Inventory data gathering and organization
grated role in education, particularly in
the area of the clinical sciences including,
2) Database driven, searchable inventory -
but not limited to, disciplines such as
possible once basic categories and termi-
Nursing and Medicine. Much of this tech-
nology are decided upon
ry
nology is found in the realm of simulation a
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and video games. Many have been slow
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3) Faceted browse + searchable site -
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to accept the roles that simulation-based
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erd
taking the databased information and
curriculums have come to occupy in the
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making it easier to navigate and manage
health sciences. The notion of accepting
video games and virtual environments as
4) Ratings - allowing community mem-
an acceptable means for clinical educa-
bers to rate games/sims (qualitative or
tion may be even more challenging.
subjective analysis)
The goal of this project is to develop an
5) Discussion - allowing community to
inventory, which aims to categorize exist-
have a more indepth way to talk about
ing simulation and videogame educa-
games/sims and related matters
tional opportunities for learning. To this
end, the project not only seeks to identify
nsion
6) Cloning/expanding - sharing method
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existing types of simulators and games,
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of creation for healthcare inventory with
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and their application, but also to vet an
other disciplines to see if it works for
expectable nomenclature for future
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them
evaluation and cataloguing of games and
simulations found within the health sci-
7) Interdisciplinary work - building bridg-
ences.
es between di erent communities of
practice with shared interests
METHODS
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Initial data gathering was done using Ra
ion
Basecamp project management tool. Cat-
tin
uss Talk to Eric Bauman at this conference or email
gs
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egories of information included:
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him at: ebauman@wisc.edu
Games/Sims for Educators Take a look at our website and provide input
(via email or web form)
Games/Sims for Patients
Flash Games
Suggest new resources to add to the inventory
Organizations
(via email or web form)
Events
News Beta website address:
Facets/Categories/Access Points http://beta.hsl.wisc.edu/portals/healthcaregames/
Initial website created for review & input Feel free to share but please don’t publish (or
on Ebling Library beta server. Google will try to index our beta site)