Healing Blade Dev Notes
Happiness is figuring out game rules for a game that we think nerdcore med-students will have a lot of fun with. Last week while in Phoenix, Francis and I sat down with a beta build of the game and started card battling. Francis’ first rule iteration was actually pretty awesome, requiring only the odd playability […]
nerdmed101 Updates Developers Notes, game design, The Healing BladeFree Your Healthcare Data!
Well, true believers, we’ve promised you more information and insight with this concept called Health 2.0, as you may have surmised from my last post. True to our word, that is exactly what we are doing tonight – not only at NerdcorelLearning.com, but in conjunction with many other healthcare sites around the world, simultaneously. As […]
nerdmed101 Updates GoogleHealth, Health 2.0, Health Data Rights, Microsoft, patient dataThe Healing Blade
For those of you who met us at the last AMSA conference in DC, you might have heard bits and pieces of a medical card game rumor. Well, let it be known that the rumor is indeed true. We here at Nerdcore Learning are developing the first microbiology-based strategy card game. Yes, if you can […]
nerdmed101 Updates apothecary, concept art, healing blade, microbiology, pestilenceUp
Just saw Up. Pixar have done it again, but you already knew that. I’ll try to keep my gushing to a manageable flow. I walked into Up purposefully not having watched any of the trailers, maintaining a media blackout of sorts. And while I enjoyed Wall-E, it didn’t resonate with me as other Pixar films […]
nerdmed101 Reviews chf, endocrinopathy, frontal bossing, genius, pixar, upImminent Book Release: The Hospitalist Manual
We’ve got a book coming out! Co-authored by Manish Mehta, MD, it’s called the Hospitalist Manual. We’re super excited about it, but are a little torn on the final cover design. It would be ridiculously awesome if you dropped us a line as to which cover seemed to work for you. Interesting story on cover […]
nerdmed101 Updates cover design, intellectual property, merck manual, the hospitalist manualIgnorance is Anything but Bliss
So it looks like that with the new Obama administration, Healthcare is finally getting the spot light it needed. Unfortunately, it actually needed this about 30 years ago. Yet, when you think about it, this is a problem that we dug ourselves into. If I had to choose one word to describe why we are […]
nerdmed101 Rants Health 2.0, Insurance, ObamaA Nerdcore Look at the Amen Break
Y’know being a Nerdcore Learner not only means that you are passionate about medicine. It defines a mutual appreciation for people that are similarly passionate about their own fields, whether it be in the arts or sciences. In my experience, the very best physicians were inevitably awesome at not only their chosen field but one […]
nerdmed101 Contest arrhythmia, break-beats, cardiology, genius, Music, passionData Visualization and Shattering Eighties Era Presuppositions
So I’m a big fan of gaming – which some might argue is just entertainment-based data visualization. While doing a research fellowship at Hopkins, I got to interact with Matt Kim, an endocrinologist who did some awesome data visualization work with thyroid nodules. Trundling through the interwebs, I came across Hans Rosling’s talk on applying […]
nerdmed101 Uncategorized data visualization, endcrinology, Hans Rosling, RadioheadCalendar Update
We’ve entirely revised and revamped the 2010 calendar and are super excited to have our design guru, Rich, grace it with one of his outstanding designs for the upcoming year. I appreciate the feedback we’ve gotten thus far from the student community and are striving to continually improve the product. Also, be sure to let […]
nerdmed101 Uncategorized Calendar, UpdatesCLC 2009 – The Transformative Power of Play
So I’m heading back from CLC 2009. The talk went well and I can largely thank my two fellow presenters for really delivering. We literally were up until midnight the night before tweaking both our talk and the game demos that Cy and Hon had built. All good things are tweaked at the last minute. […]
nerdmed101 Hope connects kids CLC, Co-Op, Play