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Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) was approved by the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR to offer the first Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program in Macao. The program will start the admission of students in the 2019/2020 academic year to... 21 January 2019
CAE announced that its president and Chief Executive Officer, Marc Parent, was named CEO of the Year in the Large Corporation category by business journal Les Affaires. The jury, composed mainly of members of the business community as well as university professors, was asked to assess the vision, innovation, capacity... 18 January 2019
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have joined forces to develop new healthcare delivery models, technology and retail innovations to advance and improve the future of healthcare. The companies will combine the power of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud and AI platform, healthcare investments and new retail solutions with WBA’s... 17 January 2019
Digital entries in the International Serious Play Awards are due February 15, 2019. Serious Play’s 11-year-old award program recognizes outstanding games designed for use for education or training in business, government/military, healthcare, museums, higher education or K12. Digital games created by high school or college students with minimal faculty involvement... 17 January 2019
The blood may not be real, but it better look, feel and even smell realistic. Rick Adams looks at developments in battlefield casualty care training. Any kid that has every created a zombie costume for Halloween or Day of the Dead celebrations knows how to make fake blood – red... 17 January 2019
Canadian news publication, The Globe and Mail, reports that SickKids will announce the appointment of Dr. Goldenberg as the hospital’s first chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence (AI), a post funded in part by a $1.75-million donation from Amar Varma, a Toronto engineer and entrepreneur whose newborn son underwent... 16 January 2019
Vcom3D released its new Virtual HHIO Training app on the Google Play store. It is an interactive serious game that challenges the user’s knowledge in humeral head intraosseous infusion. This app is both instructive and educational, and can be used for students just learning the skill or seasoned practitioners looking... 16 January 2019
The inaugural Simulation and Training for Resilience and Safety Symposium 2019 (STRS) will take place 26-27 March 2019 at No. 4 Hamilton Place, London, U.K. Through the sharing of information and ideas, this brand new event aims to encourage innovation and build partnerships in training and simulation across safety-critical industries... 16 January 2019
Beyond Limits announced the formation of a healthcare advisory board composed of prominent physicians and healthcare executives from medical clinics and companies. The board will provide medical, scientific and technical guidance to accelerate deployment of Beyond Limits cognitive AI technology for patient monitoring, clinical decision support, population health management, drug... 15 January 2019
GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced a five-year partnership to enable safer and more precise cancer immunotherapies. Multiple diagnostic tools will be developed to help predict both the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment and its adverse effects for a specific patient before the therapy is administered. This... 15 January 2019
MedaPhor Group plc announced that, pursuant to the resolution passed at the General Meeting held on in December, it has changed its name to Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc. The Board believes that the new name reflects the fact that the Group is no longer just providing ultrasound training through simulation,... 15 January 2019
Dr. Karen J. Panzarella is an Associate Professor at D’Youville, in Buffalo NY and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) master trainer. Her research focuses on the use of healthcare simulation for collaborative practice. Dr. Heather Ferro is... 14 January 2019
Dr. Cameron Ricks is an anesthesiologist and is the Medical Director of the Medical Education Simulation Center at UC Irvine. He is a clinical instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care. He is also a former critical care registered nurse. His special interest is in training of... 14 January 2019
Brian Gillett, MD, is an Emergency Medicine physician with over two decades of leadership and innovation in simulation training and emergency preparedness. Brian built and served as the director of medical simulation for the Kings County Hospital Center, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and Maimonides Medical Center. He also... 14 January 2019
Dr. Timothy Willett is SIM-one/CNSH's president and CEO (appointed in 2016) and was previously their inaugural director of Research & Development. He is passionate about bringing together the simulation community for mutual support, to improve the quality of simulation across Canada, and to advance the scope of simulation’s uses. 14 January 2019
Paul Alan Wetter, MD, has been described as, “The single individual who has done the most to promote education and understanding of minimally invasive surgery worldwide”. A visionary, who has promoted technology and education that fosters less traumatic surgery, improves physician education, lowers costs, builds communities, accelerates discovery and... 14 January 2019
MTM subscribers nominated 33 individuals, teams or organizations from around the world as Patient Safety Advocates. For our first edition of 2019 we asked our subscribers to nominate patient safety advocates they felt had contributed to increased patient safety and better patient outcomes. They could specify an individual, team,... 14 January 2019
Brian Kaminski, DO, is vice president of Quality and Patient Safety and Patient Safety Officer at ProMedica (Toledo, Ohio) and Medical Director of the Emergency Department at ProMedica Toledo Hospital. Dr. Kaminski became vice president of quality and patient safety and patient safety officer at ProMedica in 2013. During... 14 January 2019
Elizabeth Benson is an engineer, nurse, and educator. As CEO of B & G Educational Innovations, LLC, and subsidiary ReaLifeSim, LLC, she’s also an inventor and entrepreneur on a mission to improve health and wellness worldwide by improving clinical skills education. Regardless of the environment, Ms. Benson has one... 14 January 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM Publisher A few weeks ago, MTM reported that the Leapfrog Group announced the winners of its 2018 Top Hospital Awards with 118 hospitals recognized in four categories; Children’s, General, Teaching and Rural Hospitals. Living and working in Florida we are all delighted to report this... 11 January 2019