For medical students

Make the call before it’s your patient.

Code Status is a medical simulation game for iPhone and Android. Each patient arrives with a complaint, not a diagnosis. You take the history, examine, order the tests you can justify, commit to a diagnosis, treat and decide whether the patient goes home or stays.

On rotations, someone else usually makes the call. Here, you make every one, and the patient responds to what you actually did.

The diagnosis sheet in Code Status, with nothing chosen yet: aortic dissection, GERD, pericarditis, pulmonary embolism and STEMI, above a Commit Assessment button.

What you practice

Build the differential.
Every case starts with a complaint that fits more than one diagnosis. Ask, examine and test until one stands out, then commit.
Get scored like a clinician.
Each case is scored across diagnosis, testing, treatment, timing and disposition, with feedback on what you did well and where to improve. Replay it with a different approach; only your best run counts.
Learn the why.
After every case, Attending’s Notes explains what mattered and why, with 10 cited sources per case, linked to the originals. Then Make the Call adds fast bedside questions that lock in the lesson.

What it is not

Code Status is not a USMLE or board exam question bank, and it does not award course credit. Every patient is fictional, and it is for training only.

Cases to start with

See all 30 cases

New to emergency care? 11 of the 30 cases are Beginner: spot the pattern and give the standard care.

Teaching medical students?

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).