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 HealthDepartment of Anesthesiology

Ebling Library for the Health SciencesMadison, WI, United States

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Disclosures

• Eric Bauman – healthcare educational consultantRecent Disclosures:Town of Madison Fire Department & Vernon Memorial Healthcare

• Allan Barclay – none• Ulrike Dieterle – none• Sam P. Seider – none• Gaura Saini - none

The problem with games and sims

• Unclear definitions, categories• Different uses, audiences for same thing• Technical requirements, environments• Not “published” like books, journals, etc• Not published = not indexed or organized• Not organized = not easily found, evaluated• Not found = not used

The solution: a flexible inventory • We started collecting low-hanging fruit titles• Used very basic categories

– for Clinicians & Healthcare Providers – for Patients & Consumers

• Used Basecamp project management software for data gathering and review

• Used existing website tools from Ebling Library for initial mockups

Goal for inventory: A Faceted LibraryFaceted classification allows for a non-hierarchical, flexible

description of resources

Basecamp Project Management software (from 37signals)

BASECAMP - Where we Started

http://beta.hsl.wisc.edu/portals/healthcaregames/Feel free to share but please don’t publish this URL

Beta Version 1.0 our Library

Potential path of the project

– Basic inventory – raw data– Databased, searchable inventory – cleaned data– Faceted browse/search – objective analysis– Ratings – subjective/qualitative analysis– Discussion – synthesis, peer review– Cloning for other subject areas - reproducibility – Interdisciplinary work by sharing data/facets -

reproduction

And now for a little help from our friends…

• We could use your help with– New resources– Checking descriptions– Adding information– Giving us your general ideas via a survey

Special Thanks!Michael Betzner and Jeff Taekman for supplying some of the images

that appear in this presentation, and to all of my, students and colleagues who appeared in this presentation

Contact InformationEric Bauman, PhD, RNDepartment of AnesthesiologyUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Healthebauman@wisc.edu608-263-8100

Allan Barclay, MLISEbling Library for the Health SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin - Madisonabarclay@library.wisc.edu608-262-3957