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Educational board games · Healthcare · Research

Clinical learning,
brought to the table.

Educational board games for healthcare induction, simulation, and clinical learning.

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01 / The games

Serious subjects.
Playful possibilities.

Find a game for your teaching session, team, or learning goal.

Induction & simulation

Dayshift

  • A player choosing an illustrated care card beside the Dayshift bay board
    Dayshift in play
  • A player placing a clear counter on a Dayshift patient card
    Patient cards and counters
  • A Dayshift event card beside yellow counters on the blue bay board
    An unexpected event
  • Dayshift bay board with five numbered beds
    The five-bed bay board
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A shared way to explore a working day in healthcare, from competing care priorities to the decisions a team makes together.

Three versions

ITURehab CentrePhysio
Who it’s for
Healthcare students, new starters, and teams
Learning outcome
Explore the healthcare working day through induction and simulation.
Group size
2–30 players · Modular format
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Lead II interpretation

ECG Race

  • ECG Race rhythm cards, heart counters and dice arranged on a blue playing mat
    ECG Race on the table
  • Easy, intermediate and hard ECG Race cards arranged across a blue mat
    A range of rhythm cards
  • An ECG Race rhythm card surrounded by red heart counters
    A closer look
  • ECG Race blue easy-level rhythm card
    Easy rhythm card
  • ECG Race intermediate-level atrial fibrillation card
    Intermediate rhythm card
  • ECG Race hard-level rhythm card showing third-degree AV block
    Hard rhythm card
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Bring ECG interpretation off the page with a physical card game built around recognising cardiac rhythms.

Who it’s for
Healthcare students and clinicians learning ECG interpretation
Learning outcome
Interpret cardiac rhythms using Lead II ECG traces.
Play format
Two teams · Head-to-head
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Differentiating types of shock

Shock Who

  • Shock Who cards laid out on a blue mat with red heart counters
    Shock Who in play
  • A player turning over an anaphylactic shock card during Shock Who
    Revealing a card
  • A player holding a Shock Who heart block card above the playing mat
    The cards in your hands
  • Shock Who cardiogenic shock card
    Cardiogenic shock card
  • Shock Who hypovolemic shock card
    Hypovolemic shock card
  • Shock Who heart block card
    Heart block card
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Explore the features of different types of shock through a shared tabletop learning experience.

Who it’s for
Healthcare students and teams studying shock recognition
Learning outcome
Differentiate between types of shock.
Group size
Best with 3–6 players
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From around the table

In their words.

Feedback from the people who play.

  • Lots of fun. Great for team building
    Healthcare Professional
  • Fun, entertaining and educational
    Medical Team Member
  • Well done for this new educational game!
    Nursing Educator
  • This is a whole new step forward to making learning (nursing) more interesting
    Nurse
  • This is a great tool to show how a shift feels like and would be amazing for new starters with no experience
    Senior Nurse
  • Nursing care can be fun and this will help for nurse not to be burnout at work. Fun and educational even at work
    Healthcare Worker
  • A very enjoyable way to understand what an ITU shift is like, great for new starter, students etc
    ITU Nurse
  • We won the prize, learning can be fun
    Team Winner
Healthcare professionals, educators, and teams.

02 / In the works

The next ideas
at the table.

Working with collaborators to explore what games can bring to education and research.

Not the Bleep: First on Call card back, credited to UHSussex and the Tabletop Simulation Research Group
Not the Bleep · First on Call
Not the Bleep prototype scenario card
A bleep-handling scenario
01In development

Not the Bleep

A tabletop simulation for practising how to handle bleeps with large groups. Bringing the decisions and demands of bleep handling into a shared learning experience.

In collaboration with

Tabletop Simulation Research Group
UHSussex

Red-Eyed prototype card: acute angle-closure glaucoma, credited to Anthony Loizides and CareCombobulation
Acute angle-closure glaucoma
Red-Eyed prototype card: anterior uveitis, credited to Anthony Loizides and CareCombobulation
Anterior uveitis
02In development

Red-Eyed

Ask yes-or-no questions to work out what is causing a patient’s red eyes. Follow the clues and identify the cause before your opponent does.

In collaboration with

UHSussex

ABG Detective prototype interpretation card
The interpretation card
ABG Detective prototype example card titled Normal
An example from the deck
03In development

ABG Detective

An arterial blood gas (ABG) interpretation game in development with the University of Brighton. Bringing blood gas results to the table for hands-on learning and discussion.

In collaboration with

University of Brighton

03 / The people

Behind every game,
a human connection.

Emanuele Musumeci seated at a table with Dayshift boards, game cards, and dice
Critical care nurse · Game designer · Brighton

Director & Lead Game Designer

Emanuele
Musumeci

I’m a critical care nurse by background, based in Brighton, and the Director and Lead Game Designer at CareCombobulation.

I’m involved in gamification research across South East England, working with healthcare and university collaborators to develop educational board games and tabletop experiences.

Have an idea? Let’s talk

Our creative collaborators

Different imaginations.
Shared possibilities.

@sleepybugbaby

One of the artists we’re currently working with.
Explore their work on Instagram.

04 / Let’s talk

Bring your next
idea to the table.

Plan a game session

For teaching, induction, or a team learning session. Tell us about your audience and what you’d like to explore.

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Collaborate on research

Develop an educational board game or explore a gamification research question with us.

Discuss a collaboration
em@carecombobulation.com