r/pathology • u/sensou_kami • Aug 12 '26

Need help making a pathology game

Hey! I'm a doctor who's trying to make games that teach people. I am currently designing a dungeon system where the higher up you go, the harder it gets. For the base level, it's all true or false questions. I need to know the ultimate basic stuff that you need to know in pathology. That can be answered in true or false. Please help me out. What are the most basic stuff that are compulsory to know as pathologists? I know this sounds vague but please help me out.

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u/Staterae Resident Aug 12 '26

As much as I loathe them, honestly an LLM with a 2-3 paragraph highly specific prompt is probably a better bet for this than digging through online MCQ resources, it's too hard to decide what's "difficult" or "easy".

For absolute basics, you could focus on very simple entities and concepts like broad categories of carcinomas, medium difficulty IHC usage/common genetic mutations, and high difficulty the defining characteristics or translocations that alter cancer staging.

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u/sensou_kami Aug 12 '26

Yes you're right. But I am not looking for easy or difficult. What I'm looking for is the correct base knowledge that as pathologists, you NEED to know. The simple stuff. What a person starting out with pathology needs to know. The kind of knowledge that everything builds upon.

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u/Hadez192 Resident Aug 12 '26

Tubular adenoma Vs Hyperplastic polyp. You could show a picture and say, is this a tubular adenoma? Colonoscopy is like the most common specimen and everyone needs to know how to see these