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Nerdcore Medical

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Nerdcore Medical
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Industrypublishing companies
tabletop game industry
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Arun Mathews, MD. Zeeba Mathews, MD. Brandon Patton.
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Nerdcore Medical is a publishing company based in Seattle that produces games and books for medical education. It was originally founded as "Nerdcore Learning" by two doctors, Arun Mathews and Francis Kong, in 2008, for the release of a card game about infectious disease called Healing Blade. It is currently owned by Dr. Arun Mathews, MD, and Dr. Zeeba Mathews, MD.

Releases[edit]

  • 2010: Healing Blade (card game)[1]
  • 2013: Occam's Razor: The Diagnostician's Dilemma (card game study aid) [2]
  • 2014: “Healing Blade: Fantasy Art in Medicine” (art exhibit at the Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin)[3]
  • 2015: The Bacterionomicon[4][5]
  • 2016: Healing Blade: Defenders of Soma[6][7]
  • 2019: Tales of Soma (children's book, by Zeeba Mathews, MD)
  • 2020- (ongoing): Curative Design video series[11]


Awards[edit]

  • 2018 Fast Company World Changing Ideas - Finalist[12]


References[edit]

  1. "Doctors make game out of learning infection control". amednews.com. 2010. Retrieved 2022-10-10. For Dr. Arun Mathews and Dr. Francis Kong, teaching medical students is as much about sorcerers and science fiction as it is about textbooks and rounds.
  2. "Doctors Invent Medical Card Game to Teach Diagnosis". prweb.com. 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-10. a new medical card game to help nursing students, medical students, and health professionals practice diagnosing patients
  3. "Fantasy art, health science come together for exhibit". Midland Reporter Telegram. 2014. Retrieved 2022-10-10. When two Permian Basin physicians collaborate with a team of artists both international and local, the result is “Healing Blade: Fantasy Art in Medicine” on display now at the Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin.
  4. "Appendix BGaming Arcade Submission Descriptions". Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education: Workshop Summary. 2015. Retrieved 2022-10-10. The Bacterionomicon is a compendium of infectious bacteria and antibiotics presented in the style of a Dungeons & Dragons bestiary book, in order to use imagination, metaphor, and stories to aid learning and promote awareness about antibiotic misuse.
  5. "Fund This! Bras, Bacteria, and Bravery". geekdad.com. 2014. Retrieved 2022-10-10. A fantasy art bestiary of bacteria and the antibiotics that fight them
  6. "Game review: Healing Blade Defenders of Soma". labnews.co.uk. 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  7. "Healing Blade: A game review of Defenders of Soma". transmissible (posted on vimeo). 2017. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  8. "A field guide to dangerous bacteria". tabletopwhale.com. 2016. Retrieved 2022-10-10. During the past year and a half I’ve been working with the wonderful people at Nerdcore Medical on a set of 20 medical infographics.
  9. "Fund This! Bras, Bacteria, and Bravery". boingboing.net. 2017. Retrieved 2022-10-10. Nerdcore Medical and Tabletop Whale created this handy and informative graphic... part of a series of one-pagers on topics of interest to medical students
  10. "The Visual Story of the Human Heart". blogs.ScientificAmerican.com. 2017. Retrieved 2022-10-10. Information graphic captures the complex science of embryonic heart development
  11. "Curative Design YouTube channel". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  12. "The 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards Finalists". fastcompany.com. 2018. Retrieved 2022-10-10.

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