For PA students
Walk into your ED rotation ready.
Every accredited PA program includes an emergency medicine rotation, and it often lasts just four to six weeks. Code Status is a medical simulation game for iPhone and Android that lets you work emergency patients before yours starts.
Each patient arrives with a complaint and nothing else. You take the history, examine, order what you can justify, commit to a diagnosis, treat and decide where the patient goes, with the clock running.
What you practice
Work up the undifferentiated patient.
A complaint and a set of vital signs, nothing else. Decide what to ask, what to examine and which tests earn their place, then commit to a diagnosis.
See your score, then beat it.
Each case is scored on diagnosis, workup, treatment, timing and disposition, so you know exactly where the points went. Replay with a different approach; only your best run counts.
Know the why before you present.
Attending’s Notes explains what mattered and why, with 10 cited sources per case, linked to the originals. Then Make the Call follows with quick bedside questions.
See how it teaches: free lessons from the cases.
What it is not
Code Status is not a PANCE or End of Rotation exam review or question bank, and it does not award course 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.
Precepting PA 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).