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MedicQuest
Run a medical clinic, diagnose patients, perform first aid, and investigate disease outbreaks — learn anatomy, clinical reasoning, triage, and public health through case-based medical detective gameplay. Includes health influences investigation, patient communication skills, and wellness goal-setting for complete health education coverage.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Cura
#81C784 MedicQuest lets you run your own medical clinic! Diagnose patients by checking their symptoms, learn first aid, explore the human body system by system, and investigate disease outbreaks on a map. You will think like a doctor while learning real health science. (Remember: this is a learning game, not real medical advice!)
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
MedicQuest's 5-character cast embodies the foundational medical-literacy primitives per AAP 2024 + NHES 1-8 + WHO Health Literacy Framework — symptom-noticing-without-alarm (Notice), clinical-history-taking + questioning (Ask), body-autonomy + consent (Boundary), help-seeking from a trusted adult (Tell), and wellness-as-multi-factor-system (Whole). Cura(mentor — too on-the-nose for medical domain — → Cura, Latin: care; classical-academic register parallel to Veritas; non-religious) frames each primitive; cast embodies them at school-nurse / family-doctor-visit / community-health-fair scale (NEVER ER-doctor / specialist-surgeon / medical-celebrity framing). Medical-trauma gate enforced: cast NEVER assumes health-normalcy (1 in 5 adolescents has chronic illness per AAP 2024); cast NEVER positions any body as 'normal' vs 'abnormal'; cast NEVER references weight / calories / body-composition / 'fitness level' anywhere; static-response gating for self-harm + ED + abuse signals routes to crisis-resources (988 + NEDA 1-800-931-2237 + Childhelp 1-800-422-4453 + Crisis Text Line HOME-741741 + RAINN 1-800-656-4673). Body-image gate. Illness-anxiety gate: Notice's design counter-codes hypochondria. Pharma-skepticism balance gate. Body-autonomy + abuse-recognition gate: kit 7 carries mandatory-reporter-relevant content per RAINN + Childhelp guidance — FULL trauma-informed protocol. External sensitivity reviewer envelope $2,000-$3,800 cumulative (NEDA + RAINN + Childhelp + adolescent-medicine + comparative-religion-for-health-belief) — HIGHEST PRIORITY in.
Notice
Symptom-noticing without alarm — most symptoms are minor + temporary; notice without catastrophizing
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Ask
Clinical-history-taking + questioning — your questions are MEDICAL EVIDENCE; never feel silly asking
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Boundary
Body-autonomy + consent — your body is YOURS; ask-first is universal; pangolin curl-pose models self-protection-as-positive
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Tell
Help-seeking from a trusted adult — telling is the most powerful medical move (shared design language with SafetyForge Wave 24 Tell — cross-app continuity)
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Whole
Wellness-as-multi-factor-system — health is sleep + food + movement + relationships + meaning + safety; never single-factor; explicit health-equity foregrounding
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What's inside
Patient Diagnosis
Patients arrive with symptoms. Read their chart, ask questions, and run tests to figure out what is going on. Narrow down the possibilities and make your diagno
Anatomy Explorer
Dive into the human body and explore how each system works. Navigate through the circulatory system, see how lungs breathe, and learn what bones and muscles do.
First Aid Training
Learn real first aid skills through interactive scenarios. What do you do if someone is choking? How do you treat a burn? Practice making the right decisions in
Outbreak Investigation
A disease is spreading on the map! Track cases, find the source, and figure out how to stop it. Use data and detective skills to protect the community.
Mentored by Cura — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How MedicQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
MedicQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
MedicQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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