Marcus Deverell, editor of the Practice Desk

Marcus Deverell edits the Practice Desk: the entries of the games directory, its topic pages and the articles on single games.

What he covers

Marcus Deverell edits the entries of the games directory, its topic pages and the articles on single games. That includes the guides to CPR games, medical assisting games and career exploration games, and the pages for the two games built for this site on the play page. Each guide says what a game trains and what it does not: a CPR game does not replace a class, and a medical assisting game is not exam preparation.

How he works

A game counts as Playable only when its maker's own page offers it. Successor and Discontinued are set only when the maker says so. All three are read on the maker's page, and the month of that reading is printed on the entry.

Every other official address is opened once a month, and the entry then says only what was seen: the page loaded, the address moved to another website or the address is gone. A page that loads does not prove that the game still runs. Medical, exam and safety facts come only from a primary source, such as a resuscitation council, a professional association or a government statistics page. Prices are given only when a maker's page states them.