blogging academic medical games

A must have for the ultimate gamer, even with medical games, an improved medical vest for gaming:

A vest designed by doctor Mark Ombrellaro uses air pressure and feedback from computer games to deliver pneumatic thumps to the spots on players’ torsos where they would have been struck were they actually on the battlefields.

While it was originally:

The medical version of the vest is more sophisticated, enabling doctors sitting at their computers to prod, poke and press patients’ bodies from afar and get feedback on what they are virtually feeling, according to Ombrellaro.

That model is pending approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, which wants to be assured that diagnosis made using the vests are reliable.

Thanks to Engadget

 

Games are fun. Dr Shock loves computer games. Thanks to DigiCMB he found a lot of medical games on Deirdre’s Wiki.
Deirdre Bonnycastle is a member of Classroom 2.0 blog:

I have been a teacher for 36 years; I’ve used personal computers in my classroom since 1980 and I currently help faculty in the College of Medicine to move to a more student centered approach.

Classroom 2.0 is:

the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.

My favorite game is DoomEd, what is yours?