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OSF Healthcare’s Saint Anthony College of Nursing in Rockford, Illinois added two new simulation labs including a neonatal/obstetrics (OB) lab that gives nursing students the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be an OB nurse during childbirth and a community lab constructed like a living room to simulate... 2 June 2016
A Florida company that makes synthetic humans for medical training has branched out to synthetic dogs — and it says it’s hoping to place packs of them in every veterinary school in the world. If successful, SynDaver Labs says, the mission would save thousands of animals by preventing shelter dogs... 2 June 2016
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Nursing developed a computerized haptic system for nasogastric tube (NGT) placement training, letting nursing students to practice NGT insertion in a simulated virtual environment. The school says it’s the first computerized haptic system developed for training nurses in clinical skills in... 1 June 2016
Picture this: At every step of a patient’s trip through the hospital, a virtual assistant awaits, ready to answer questions, pull up medical records — or snap photos during surgery. Hospital staff and patients walked through that futuristic hospital scenario one recent afternoon at a new simulation center at Boston... 1 June 2016
Military surgeons face a unique challenge in that they serve as a “jack-of-all-trades” in an austere environment while deployed, only to return home to the expectation that they will compete with the standards of civilian surgical care, which has become increasingly subspecialized and highly dependent on minimally invasive technology. To... 31 May 2016
The Penn College of Technology opened a new Nursing Education Center that has seven learning labs and 10 dedicated classrooms – and is serving more than 350 students enrolled in nursing majors at the school. The expanded nursing school facilities allowed the college to accept more students into its nursing... 18 May 2016
The 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES) at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois has a new Cargo Compartment Trainer (CCT) that gives AE crew members a realistic simulated clinical experience to develop their clinical abilities and their comfort level with operational missions in an environment that mimics an aircraft they... 16 May 2016
An app developed by a team of University of Tennessee instructors to teach student nurses in monitoring laboring mothers and their babies is so successful, it is now available on the iTunes App Store for iPads. The Simulated Electronic Fetal Monitor app teaches students how to interpret the data generated... 12 May 2016
Limbs & Things introduced a Cesarean Section (C-Section) Module for its PROMPT Flex Birthing Simulator. The new module has two elements. The first consists of an anatomically correct, replaceable surgical pad with eight layers, plus the female bladder. This part of the module aids highly realistic training in transverse incisions... 11 May 2016
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, is accepting applications for its ‘Innovation Showcases’ competition through May 27. The contest will give 20 healthcare innovators a chance to demonstrate their work in front of more than 1,000... 10 May 2016
A team of patient safety experts at Johns Hopkins say more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S., according to the results of their study published in the BMJ on May 3. The team says after analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year... 4 May 2016
Boston Children’s Hospital opened a 4,000-square-foot, $12 million expanded pediatric Simulation (SIM) Center where doctors, nurses and other staff can rehearse tough medical situations or practice tricky or rare procedures in a clinical setting that looks and feels real. Families will also use the facility that incorporates real medical equipment,... 4 May 2016
3D Systems collaborated with the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) to develop a standardized curriculum for Bronchoscopy on the Simbionix BRONCH Mentor™ virtual reality training simulator. The CHEST Standardized Curriculum Module for Essential Bronchoscopic Skills and Diagnostic Bronchoscopy helps users learn and master basic skills and clinical knowledge, and... 3 May 2016
3D Systems won an ECAT (Electronic Catalog) contract from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency to deliver medical simulation products and accessories to U.S. military service branches. ECAT is an online ordering, distribution and payment system that gives Department of Defense and other federal customers access to multiple manufacturer and distributor... 2 May 2016
Mimic Technologies’ consulting training subsidiary signed an agreement with HealthTrust to become a new supplier of robotic surgery simulation training products and robotic surgery training consulting services. Mimic Medical Education and Development (MimicMED), provides guidance in successfully implementing best practices to help fully develop new and existing robotic surgery training... 2 May 2016
Southern Arkansas University opened its new Blue and You Health Sciences Simulation Center that is named in honor of the $149,128 grant from Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Blue & You Foundation that funded much of the center’s equipment. The SAU Nursing Simulation Lab has four studios that are all... 2 May 2016
A Boise State University team of nursing and gaming professionals developed a wearable technology that lets its nursing students practice complex simulations – at a lower cost than more standard training. The Virtual Reality Nursing Simulation with Custom Haptic System for Patient Safety is a wearable technology that lets students... 29 April 2016
The University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine in Orlando will start a new Emergency Medicine residency program in July 2016 and is recruiting several residents to start this summer. The medical school’s newest graduate medical education (GME) training program is in partnership with Osceola Regional Medical Center and... 27 April 2016
Surgical Theater, a provider of medical virtual reality, will present its first-of-its kind virtual reality surgical visualization platform for neurosurgery at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2016), today, April 6, in Silicon Valley. The company says its VR medical visualization solution supports all elements of patient care from the... 6 April 2016
The Autism Society of Central Texas produced a training video to help educate law enforcement officers and emergency responders how to approach, talk with and respond to people with autism. 5 April 2016