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By Andy Smith, Publisher of HealthcareTrainingandEducation.com and Medical Training Magazine The Times of London printed an editorial early this year by Professor, The Lord Darzi, on ‘Never Events’ – those catastrophic healthcare errors that are deemed should ‘Never’ occur but of course still do and with an annoying persistence. As with all features... 3 August 2016
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak provides the second in a series of insights from simulation & training industry insiders and a simulation center, on the challenges and opportunities in managing the life cycles of their learning technologies and systems. Stephanie Alwais, the chief operating officer at Vascular Simulations, LLC, summarized the... 2 August 2016
This year Healthcare Simulation South Carolina (HSSC) held their annual meeting in conjunction with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s, (SSIH) regional Sim Ops meeting at the Greenville Healthcare Simulation Center on July 21-22, 2016. Healthcare Simulation South Carolina is a collaborative of healthcare simulation centers throughout South Carolina and is... 1 August 2016
By Andy Smith, Publisher of HealthcareTrainingandEducation.com and Medical Training Magazine Medical Training Magazine (formerly MEdSim) has long advocated the creation of a just culture for healthcare, similar to that of the airline industries ‘no fault found’ system, as the basis of long term improvement in the way healthcare is designed... 28 July 2016
Study results presented at the 2016 ACS NSQIP Conference reveal how one Canadian hospital safety team implemented strategies to reduce the number of door openings during operations. A Canadian hospital safety team determined there was too much traffic in and out of the operating room (OR) during total joint replacement... 27 July 2016
by Judith Riess, Editor of Medical Training Magazine It was my privilege to have a tour of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. Dr. Jerry Youkey, Dean, and USC Associate Provost of Health Sciences and Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs kindly briefed me on the school’s... 25 July 2016
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak highlights the efforts of the simulation and training industry, and healthcare learning audiences to more effectively integrate debriefing into training scenarios and other instruction. Since the mid-1990s, this author has watched the military and civil aviation sectors refine their efforts to record and evaluate efforts by... 25 July 2016
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates (HoD) approved a resolution introduced by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and other medical societies to train more professional first responders (i.e., police and firefighters) and civilians as immediate responders in the essential techniques of bleeding control and to place bleeding... 20 July 2016
The Patient Safety Movement mid year planning meeting was held on June 10, 2016 at Fairfax Inova Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. Joe Kiani, founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, welcomed all to the meeting and reiterated the objectives and goals of the movement and what we were to... 19 July 2016
Stanford University’s Department of Neurosurgery is using Surgical Theater’s VR Visualization Platform to help advance patient engagement and empowerment. Precision VR™, Surgical Theater’s VR medical visualization platform, builds upon the traditional method of the neurosurgeon pointing out the tumor or vascular abnormality on a flat, black-and-white 2D image used in most... 18 July 2016
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to amend its medical regulations to permit full practice authority to all VA advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) when they are acting within the scope of their VA employment. The VA says this action would increase veterans' access to VA healthcare by... 15 July 2016
A new online program to help educate physicians and other health care professionals on the benefits and limitations of genetic testing and when it is appropriate to incorporate it into their practices is now available as the first of a 12-part series launched by The American Medical Association (AMA), Scripps... 13 July 2016
Flinders University in Australia plans invest more than $1 million to build a new clinical training facility at the Riverland General Hospital in Berri. The Flinders Rural Health SA simulation centre will offer professional development for clinicians and training for students with high-fidelity human patient simulators at the hospital in... 12 July 2016
The Patient Safety Movement is recommending all healthcare organizations around the world implement the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) new CANDOR Toolkit that can help hospitals handle any situation where a patient gets harmed during care – regardless if a true error occurred. The customizable Communication and... 6 July 2016
Readers of MTM/MEdSim magazine will remember the Surgicon Conferences in Gothenburg, Sweden, the first to focus on the simulation of surgery and its potential to improve training, assessment and performance three years ago. The Surgicon Foundation has now signed a letter of intent with the Lulea UnIversity of Technology with regard... 5 July 2016
The University of South Carolina Salkehatchie got a $100,000 grant BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation to establish the USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative Clinical Nursing Simulation Lab that will allow students to fulfill their educational requirements close to home. The USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative partners with the University... 27 June 2016
SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and training, and GE Healthcare expanded their collaboration to now cover ultrasound training and education for GE Women's Health and Urology Divisions. With this move, SonoSim® 365 for GE Healthcare will now be offered to Women's Health and Urology clients with qualifying ultrasound systems. 23 June 2016
Doctors often tell their patients how long they are likely to live and how well their body is responding to treatments. However, this can be one of the trickiest parts of their job. Now, a new statistical method tool promises to give accurate information on how long a cancer patient... 21 June 2016
Getting certified for simulation isn’t what you think. Simulation certification is still very new to Healthcare. As the simulation community has grown, defining the standards to ensure someone is qualified to perform a specific task has been at times, challenging. Since healthcare simulation centers can be found in pre-hospital... 20 June 2016
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- In any emergency situation, communication is key, along with staying calm and focused. That's why consistent practice and training is extremely important for medical personnel to make sure they can handle a multitude of emergencies in order to save lives. Dr. Jennifer Arnold is the medical director... 20 June 2016