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Amy E Blevins1, Elizabeth Kiscaden2, Jason Bengtson3
1a Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis , Indiana , USA.
Abstract:
In 2015, two librarians at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa turned their dreams into a reality and secured funding to build a zombie-themed evidence-based medicine game. The game features a "choose your own adventure" style that takes students through a scenario where a disease outbreak is taking place and a resident is asked to use evidence-based medicine skills to select a screening and diagnostic tool to use on potentially infected patients. Feedback on the game has been positive, and future plans include building additional modules on therapy, harm, and prognosis.
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