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Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie share the simulation model they used in the redesign of an Emergency Department. Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie built a model of an Emergency Department that clearly defined and thoroughly tested each process. Hospital Emergency Departments are constantly faced with possible... 22 May 2014
Having attended the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) annual meeting this month as well as HPSN and AUA and having listened to many excellent speakers and dedicated professionals discuss what is happening in medicine as well as daily readings of journals , blogs and other media sources it is evident... 21 May 2014
MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention. 30 April 2014
It's Thursday morning in early May in the Emergency Department at WakeMed Raleigh Campus, An experienced pediatric trauma physician is trying to help a young boy who appears to be experiencing serious respiratory distress and is not responding to medication. Looking on anxiously, the frantic mother is bombarding the doctor... 19 March 2014
MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention. Hospital organization. Competency based training and practice. Breaking down silos. Valid assessment tools... 27 February 2014
2014 IMSH The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare provided insights on the state-of-the-art in learning technologies for healthcare professionals. Editor in Chief Judith Riess and Group Editor Marty Kauchak attended the conference with Halldale Media Group Publisher and CEO Andy Smith and provide this report. A match-board exercise on... 26 February 2014
James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit... 26 February 2014
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides insights on the development of the BioGears™ open-source physiology engine. In January Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) announced they were awarded a multiyear, $7 million assistance agreement by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) in Fort Detrick, Maryland under Contract Number: W81XWH-13-2-0068. 24 February 2014
Suzanne M. Wright, PhD and Michael D. Fallacaro, DNS discuss their program to enhance patient safety – through crisis resource team training. Project Director Suzanne M. Wright, PhD, in the simulation control room. (Photo: Virginia Commonwealth University) Suzanne M. Wright, PhD and Michael D. Fallacaro, DNS describe one effort to... 24 February 2014
James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit... 24 February 2014
Do we have a system of healthcare or do we have many systems with many players all trying to play the game, with few playing by the same set of rules? In fact, many players don’t understand that each of the disparate players in the game have a set of... 24 February 2014
KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, CENP educates and informs the community about the alliance. The purpose of the CSA is to become a cohesive voice for simulation in nursing education across the state, to disseminate information to stakeholders, and to establish a universal entity for simulation. 21 February 2014
Gary Hamill, EdD, describes recent research efforts to demonstrate the potential of physiologic self-regulation and imagery training strategies to increase psychomotor capacity and improve performance. Performing a medical procedure requires a tremendous amount of psychomotor capacity - your head, hands, and the team with whom you are working have to... 28 January 2014
Since its inception more than a century ago, modern medical education has undergone a series of quiet revolutions, stretching and scaling to accommodate advances in biomedical science. Yet this comprehensive expansion in one critical area masks a relative neglect of another. Despite their staggering scope – spanning genetics to geriatrics... 15 January 2014
Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD describes how simulation shows the most promise in improving our business as we move into the next zone of reality. In much of the present day model of health care our role as management has us looking to new ideas and processes in order to move... 14 January 2014
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon and the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeon (AAOS), Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, OTA are moving forward on simulation-based training. The first Orthopaedic Summit (MEdSim 4, 2013 Pedowitz) guaranteed a top down, bottom up approach to developing simulation based... 12 January 2014
Richard Boyd asserts that we are seeing the start of the Century of Simulation and Human Intelligence use If you could manage to ignore the purveyors of even higher definition (4K) displays at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you could see the pattern emerge above the noise. 10 January 2014
Fuad Moussa, MD, MSc, MMEd, FRCSC, FACS, FCCP discusses how he designed a curriculum to teach off-pump coronary bypass surgery to new surgeons. 30 December 2013
Researchers from the University of Malaya in Malaysia, with collaboration from researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, announce the creation of a cost-effective two-part model of the skull for use in practicing neurosurgical techniques. The model, produced using the latest generation... 10 December 2013
Bonnie Haupt, DNP (C), MSN, RN, CNL, CHSE defines disclosure of adverse events and efforts to incorporate best practice components of disclosure into community scenarios Case Study Mr. Sims is a 78 year old white male who presents to the Emergency Room with signs and symptoms of pneumonia. Sims’ wife... 20 November 2013