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The Critical Need for a 21st Century Flexner Report. Frank Lau, MD, highlights major problems in today’s medical education and suggests incorporation of cutting edge science in today’s medical school curricula. Frank Lau, MD discusses the need for a Flexner style medical education revolution in medical school curricula. 100 years ago,... 23 February 2015
Blue Skies of Texas, a continuing care retirement community, has opened a nursing simulation lab for on-site training of its facilities’ nursing staff. The lab will be available 24-hours a day for nurses to hone their skills specific to geriatric care. Newly hired nurses to will be required to successfully... 16 December 2014
For too long we have looked at healthcare reform through its many parts rather than as a system. In a series of BBC Reith lectures Atul Gawande states this is “the century of the system”. Gawande argues that better systems can transform global healthcare by radically reducing the chance of... 15 December 2014
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach practitioners can use to encourage behavior change – helping a patient to devise a plan, stick to it, and feel like a participant in a collaborative relationship. MI has been proven effective across the spectrum of healthcare disciplines, but adoption is relatively low. So... 15 December 2014
A new approach to teaching healthcare students safe moving and handling techniques developed by healthcare academics at Birmingham City University in the UK resulted in a 92 percent reduction in student injuries. Last year 7120 students participated in the posture awareness program first introduced in 2009 – and only three... 15 December 2014
The British Military has trained more than 4,000 Sierra Leone Ebola healthcare workers in a specially designed three-day class at the Ebola Training Academy National Stadium in Freetown. The trained workers will go to work in one of the many Ebola response Community Care centres and Ebola Treatment Centres across... 14 December 2014
EagleMed critical care air medical transport company have had a Mobile Air Medical Education Unit built to simulate medical operations inside the company’s airplanes and helicopters that it’s using as a teaching aid for its clinical practitioners. The trailer-based Mobile Air Medical Education Unit replicates the interior medical environments of... 13 December 2014
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has launched a 3D Virtual Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (mCRC) Simulator Learning Platform as part of the NCCN Continuing Education Program. NCCN collaborated with Syandus, Inc., a technology company specializing in the development of experiential learning platforms for health care professionals and other learners to... 12 December 2014
Dr. Thomas Talbot shares ideas for enhancing the Electronic Medical Record to act as a didactic tool to support physician competency. Although we have fantastic lifelike manikins, virtual reality surgeries, artificial intelligence models, engaging software simulators and even medical games, very little innovation has gone to the medical practice environment... 11 December 2014
Jessica Ray, PhD and colleagues discuss how wearable technology improves simulation scenarios and outcomes. Jessica Ray, PhD and colleagues from Yale-New Haven Health System’s SYN:APSE Center for Learning, Transformation, and Innovation describe how they are enhancing simulations for patient and providers through the use of Google Glass. Today healthcare simulation... 10 December 2014
ED Scenario’s: Simulating Before Implementing. The third and final article in the series on how to improve the business of healthcare through the use of simulation. Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie, in the third and final article in the series, share their final model to improve efficiency with... 10 December 2014
Experiential learning, defined as “learning through experience,” will always be central to medical education. Dr. Eric Savitsky and Dr. Dan Katz report. Recently, performance-based learning has progressively been touted as an alternative to the traditional time-based learning paradigm. This is occurring in an era of cost containment and fiscal austerity... 10 December 2014
Dr. Matthew Bramlet describes how 3D printing is being used to improve pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Matthew Bramlet presented a study at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in November involving a 9-month-old girl, a 3-year-old boy and a woman in her 20s, all of whom are his patients in... 10 December 2014
Dr. Nick Fletcher discusses the use of Echocardiography simulation as a means to accelerate and enhance traditional clinical teaching. Dr. Nick Fletcher examines using simulation as an educational and training tool to enhance competence in Echocardiography. Physician use of echocardiography in intensive care, anesthesiology, acute and emergency medicine is becoming... 10 December 2014
The researchers behind the study analyzed data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), creating a disease-simulation model to estimate the risk of adults of different body weight developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. From this, the researchers then calculated the extent to which overweight and obesity may... 8 December 2014
This fall, University of Houston (UH) optometry students began hands-on training in a first-of-its-kind simulation lab that offers them 24/7 access to virtual patients. The Optometric Clinical Skills Simulation Lab, which will better prepare students to administer patient care when they start clinical rotations, is the only one at an... 21 October 2014
In the first of several articles, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reviews efforts to improve the US healthcare community’s performance in patient safety. As many as 400,000 people a year die from preventable medical errors in hospitals. This July 17, the US Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s Subcommittee... 20 October 2014
Drs. Dan Katz and Eric Savitsky with Brian Bernstein describe developing a commercial product through the government’s SBIR program Dr. Dan Katz, Dr. Eric Savitsky and Brian Bernstein describe the step by step process of the government’s Phase I, II and III SBIR program to develop a successful commercial product. 14 October 2014
Jessica Ray, PhD, Stephanie Sudikoff, MD and other simulation center staff share their use of google glass to enhance simulation for patient and family care. Wearable technologies such as Google Glass advances simulation training by allowing us to take new perspectives of our health care environment.Image Credit: Jason Fenstermaker Jessica... 14 October 2014
Dr. Cole Zanetti describes the future of medical education and training in 2050 and the resource they have in patient Cole Zanetti, DO, provides a view of a seamless healthcare education system based on competency and empowering patients to manage their chronic diseases. In 2050, people will manage most of... 14 October 2014