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Those involved in training - whatever the industry - understandably have a focus on performance. In fact, obtaining appropriate human performance, and measuring it, is at the heart of all that we do. Communication with industry will be key, including a common vocabulary and taxonomy, as well as the ability... 14 October 2014
US News Editor Lori Ponoroff discusses national and state government and private organizations and corporations funding to encourage the pursuit of nursing as a career Group tour sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in the University of Maryland simulation labs.Image Credit: American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Graduate... 9 October 2014
Group Editor Marty Kauchak discussed the Center’s history and accomplishments with Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, the founder and executive director. CMS has an array of simulation activities, all focused on its mission to use simulation to improve safety, quality and education in healthcare. Entering its third decade of service to... 9 October 2014
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have completed the first comprehensive numerical simulation of skeletal muscle tissue using a method that uses the pixels in an image as data points for the computer simulation - a method known as mesh-free simulation. The researchers, led by J.S. Chen, the... 3 October 2014
Think back to the roots of your EMS education. No matter when it was, there were probably manikins. From a simple CPR trainer to today's high-fidelity manikins, the face of EMS education is evolving to include a focus on simulation because it provides consistency and creates clinical opportunities to assess... 29 August 2014
On the 17th July Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed in Ukraine, all 298 people aboard were killed, on the 23rd July, Transasia Airways, GE222 crashed on landing in Taiwan in bad weather with 48 fatalities and on the 24th July, Air Algerie, AH 5017 crashed in Mali, N Africa killing all... 5 August 2014
Robert DiRaddo and Christine Bryce talk about the National Research Council of Canada’s simulation technology development. Realism. Convenience. Affordability. These are objectives the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has embraced over a successful history of developing simulation technologies for applications varying from vehicle part manufacturing to food packaging to... 24 July 2014
Lisa V. Adams, MD sheds light on how global health has become its own discipline and how future medical students will define competencies and equities in global health. Over the last decade, the field of global health has grown by every conceivable measure. Students at all levels – sometimes as... 24 July 2014
On July 17th the United States Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging met to discuss the leading causes of death in the US. The first two, heart disease, 597,000 and cancer, 574,000 came as no surprise. However, the third leading cause, preventable medical errors in hospitals, 440,000 a year... 24 July 2014
Amar Patel, Wake Med Director of the Center for Innovative Learning describes how to develop a business plan and show ROI for your center. Students perform on a manikin as part of simulation technology classes. Most all of us have taken medical simulation classes to improve our caregiving skills using... 24 July 2014
Marty Kauchak and James Cypert talk about the importance of standardization in simulation technologies and the training of technicians. SimGHOSTS lead hands-on simulation training event. Mr. Cypert is the technical director for the School of Nursing at California Baptist University. Until February 2014 he was the president of SimGHOSTS, a... 24 July 2014
Dr. Dan Katz and Dr. Eric Savitsky describe how they created a cloud based training solution for ultra sound training. This is a three-part series that uses a case study to describe the introduction of disruptive innovation into medical education and training. The first installment describes identifying an unmet need... 24 July 2014
Beth Thomas, MD and Gabriel Reedy, PhD describe one of their simulation programs that involves potential learners and helps establish positive partnerships in the community. Medical simulation is not just for the clinical learner; rather, it can have far reaching impact and can contribute meaningfully to the community. The value of... 24 July 2014
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responders felt better prepared to respond to an active shooter incident after receiving focused tactical training according to a new study in the journal Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 14 July 2014
By Columbia University Medical Center In medicine, as in other fields where a beginner’s mistake can be fatal, simulation-based training bridges the gap between learning and doing. At Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S), medical students practice everything from taking a patient’s medical history - with actors playing the... 26 June 2014
Dr. Howard Champion and Dr. Jan Cannon Bowers look at issues to be addressed to make simulation an integral part of experiential medical training. 27 May 2014
Staff writer Lesya Hoover reports on the International Collaboration Taking Place to Open Simulation Centers in the Ukraine Lesya Hoover interviews Ukrainian-Swiss Mother and Child Health Programme representatives, Natalia Riabtseva and Grigory Naumovets. On May 30, 2013, the first Ukrainian medical simulation center was officially opened in the Crimean Perinatal... 23 May 2014
Jim Carlson, PhD, discusses a program his school uses to enhance clinical reasoning competency. Jim Carlson, PhD, PA-C, describes Rosalind Franklin’s use of a web-based virtual patient simulator to enhance case-based learning in teaching clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning is complex, requiring significant time and experience to master. Traditionally, this competency... 23 May 2014
Editor in Chief Judith Reiss reports from the Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) event which took place at the end of April. HPSN 2014 was held in Sarasota, Florida, which gave the participants of the conference the opportunity to visit the simulator plant and meet the employees where the mannequins... 22 May 2014
Staff writer Lori Ponoroff addresses the worldwide nursing shortage by highlighting strategies being used by associations, universities and governments to combat the problem in the first in a series of nursing articles. Lori Ponoroff discusses one strategy being used to eliminate the worldwide nursing shortage. They’ll need a million in... 22 May 2014