Heart Valve
serious learning game

2018

A serious learning game for Edwards Lifesciences. It helps general practitioners and other medical professionals get better at cardiac examination and auscultation.

The game is officially accredited: log in with your BIG registration number, score well and your accreditation point is added automatically. A first for a serious learning game.

iPad showing the Heart Valve game: a patient consult in a virtual practice

Play different patient cases

You work like a medical detective. Patients visit your virtual practice for a consult: you ask the right questions, examine them and listen to their heart. The murmurs are real recordings you learn to assess.

iPad showing a patient case dialogue in the Heart Valve game

Developed with cardiologists

Built together with cardiologists Dr. Renée van den Brink (AMC) and Dr. Janneke Wittekoek (Heartlife klinieken). They wrote the patient cases and the medical background.

Heart Valve game screen with examination options
Auscultation screen: placing the stethoscope on the patient’s chest

Listen to the heart

Perform different physical examinations and listen to the heart to hear exactly what the murmur sounds like.

The Heart Valve game running in the browser on a desktop computer

In the news

RTL Nieuws covered the game on national television.