For residents on an emergency rotation
Make the calls before your first ED shift.
Code Status is a medical simulation game for iPhone and Android, built around an emergency department shift. Patients wait on the board with a complaint and nothing else. You pick one up, take the history, examine, order what you can justify, commit to a diagnosis, treat and make the disposition call.
On the wards, most patients arrive with a working diagnosis. In the emergency department they arrive with a complaint, and you decide what it is, how sick they are and where they go next. Code Status lets you practice that before your rotation starts.
What you practice
Sort the sick from the not sick.
Every case starts with a complaint that fits more than one diagnosis. Decide who needs action now, then work out what is going on.
Decide where the patient goes.
Home, admission, the ICU or the operating room. Disposition is scored, because in the emergency department it is part of the job.
Learn the why.
After every case, Attending’s Notes explains what mattered and why, with 10 cited sources per case, linked to the originals. Replay with a different approach; only your best run counts.
See how it teaches: free lessons from the cases.
What it is not
Code Status is not a board review course or an in-training exam question bank, and it does not award CME credit. The cases are adult emergency presentations. Every patient is fictional, and it is for training only.
Cases to start with
See all 31 casesNew to emergency care? 12 of the 31 cases are Beginner: spot the pattern and give the standard care.
Running an off-service rotation?
Send a learner into a case, then talk through the decisions they made. Every case closes with sourced teaching, and scores are teaching feedback, not an assessment of competence. Tell us what you need.
Play two complete cases, free.
For iPhone (iOS 16.4 or later) and Android phones (Android 7.0 or later).