7 Great Board Games To Learn More About Your Health

Who says that learning has to be dull? With the right board games you can learn more about your health and have fun while doing it. Each one has its own lessons to pass on but no matter which one you start with, each of these 7 board games has a lot to teach you about your health.

Medical Monopoly

Medical Monopoly is clearly patterned after regular Monopoly but with a heath care twist. Players try to fill beds in the four hospitals and buy organs instead of properties. Once you get your hands on the organs then you can perform transplants and other medical procedures. This game has much to teach about first aid, basic medicine, and anatomy.

Clinical Anatomy

Clinical Anatomy is the board game to give you detailed lessons in anatomy by testing your knowledge. Through trial and error, you can begin to learn all you ever wanted to know about anatomy. You can learn the names, locations, and purposes of muscles, bones, organs, nerves, joints, and blood vessels. The more you play the more you learn.

Infection

Infection teaches players about various diseases. Each player travels around the board while catching any number of diseases, giving them to other players, and trying to get themselves cured. For those who think that a game full of infectious diseases sound like fun, you would be hard pressed to find a better game than Infection.

Chronic Care Challenges

Chronic Care Challenges is a game with a serious focus. It directs its players to figure out ways to provide better care for those with chronic conditions. Because it can be difficult to broach the subject, this game can provide an opportunity to find solutions to chronic care challenges without all the weight of the real topic. This game definitely has real life applications.

What If? Games

What If? Games are a way to help health care professionals in particular to think about how they would treat patients with specific health problems. This is an opportunity to not only learn about what goes wrong when a person faces health issues but also how a medical professional might approach treatment. Game cards add random complicating factors to each situation so that each scenario is more true to life.

Friday Night At The ER

Friday Night at the ER is a board game that seeks to represent medical care situations. The purpose of these made-up scenarios is to learn how to treat patients. Another board game geared to medical professionals, this board game focuses on teaching players how to improve patient treatment and care.

The Thinking Nurse

The Thinking Nurse is a game for nursing students that helps them to review general nursing information. It offers players a chance to apply this knowledge to scenarios created for the game. It is a fun and effective review tool for nursing students.

These 7 board games to learn more about your health are educational tools made fun. Though they are mostly geared toward medical personnel, anyone can increase their knowledge by playing a few games. In the end, you may know as much about certain subjects as some medical professionals.

Mary E. Ward writes about how to obtain a master's in healthcare.