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Serious game.
Serious learning.

All proceeds are donated to McMaster University

Welcome

Looking to purchase the original GridlockED game?
 

Click here or on the badge to the right for our purchasing portal.

Did you know you can now download FREE GridlockED lesson plans that drive home various teaching points for your trainees?
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Check it out at our
EM Sim Cases blog post.
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THE GAME

Co-designed
learning platform.

This game was co-designed with emergency medicine faculty and medical students. The goal was to create a game that could allow future doctors to learn systems approaches to patient management in a safe, low stakes environment.

Play together to save patients.

In GridlockED, players work together to treat and prioritize patients. This fosters collaboration and communication skills. 

Make low stakes mistakes.

This game allows players to grasp what a real emergency department (ED) is like, without the life-or-death stakes.

SERVICES

PRESS COVERAGE

GridlockED has been featured in the following news outlets:

Hamilton

Spectator

2018.03.12

McMaster
FHS news

2018.03.14

CHCH News

2018.03.27

HHS Share

2018.03.28

CE&N

Magazine 

2018.05.07

Harvard-Macy

Blog

2018.07.10

Hospital News

2018.09.02

EM:RAP

2018.09

AM Blog

2018.09.13

EM SimCases

2018.01.22

KeyLIME

Podcast

2018.02.01

Closler Blog

2018.02.12

Also...

The GridlockED paper​​

is now published in the journal

Academic Medicine.

(Click here to read)

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ABOUT

Want to find out more about the game? We have created a video about the game process.  Simply click on the video to find out more.

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What's in the game box?

- Game board

- Provider pawns & decal stickers

- Patient Cards / Event Cards

- 2 circular markers (Hour/Safety)

- Dry erase markers

- 1 die (6 sided)

- Instruction Sheet

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What's not in the box?

- wipes for the cards (needed for after the dry erase marks. Paper Napkins will work well.)

- Expansion packs

2016

Year that development began

2017

CAEP Top Innovation Award

2017

ICRE Top 5
What Works Abstracts

2018

Game Available on Sale
PROJECTS

PHOTOS

Seen at...

Thomas Jefferson

University

Denver Health

& University of Colorado

Niagara Health
Systems

McMaster

2018 Day in Faculty Development

2018 SAEM

Lion's Den

2018 Canadian Conference in Medical Education (Halifax)

Seen At
CONTACT

CONTACT

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Inquiries

For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please email us at gridlockedgame@gmail.com or fill out the following form:

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Volunteering

To apply for a volunteer position with the GridlockED game team, please send a cover letter together with your C.V. to: gridlockedgame@gmail.com

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