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A call to the industry by Andy Smith, Medical Training Magazine publisher The National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA) organized this year’s annual NMSC meeting at UNMC’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, with Rick Severinghaus, Chair of the NMSC Policy Committee as conference organizer and Chair. 3 October 2018
previously published in MTM issue 3, 2017 Jeffrey P. Gold, MD and Pamela J. Boyers, PhD profile the Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCELSM) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which is a bold, interprofessional initiative purposefully designed to transform the current model of healthcare professions education. 2 October 2018
previously published in MTM issue 2, 2018 Pamela J. Boyers, Ph.D. and Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D. offer ideas and strategies to improve health profession education and improve patient safety. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu The State of Nebraska... 2 October 2018
GE Healthcare made an equity investment in SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and training. The partnership will offer enhanced education services across medical disciplines from women’s health and cardiology to point of care and primary care. As ultrasound continues to grow in all medical fields, GE Healthcare says it’s... 2 October 2018
Medic-CE, a provider of accredited online continuing education for emergency medical services (EMS) and fire professionals, launched Resiliency training that teaches first responders how to work through the trauma they experience in the field. 1 October 2018
National Park College (NPC) in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas opened a nursing clinical simulation lab with the help of a $500,000 donation to the school last year and a $100,000 pledge per-year for three years for financial-aid packages for nursing students from CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs. The sim lab... 1 October 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) driven by machine learning (ML) algorithms is a branch in the field of computer science rapidly gaining popularity within the healthcare sector. However, graduate medical education and other teaching programs within academic teaching hospitals across the U.S. and around the world have not yet come to... 27 September 2018
MedaPhor Group, an ultrasound software and simulation company, installed a ScanTrainer OBGYN and General Medical simulator training platform at the new Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, UK for the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH). The Academy was designed to ease growing ultrasound training pressures... 27 September 2018
The new Johns Hopkins All Children’s Research and Education Building opened in St. Petersburg, Florida that houses the hospital’s graduate medical education and simulation programs, institutes, an expanded biorepository and a new team of fundamental scientists who will seek to understand the origins of diseases and how to prevent them. 21 September 2018
Intermountain Healthcare opened its 120,000 square-foot Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. It is home to multiple institutes and programs the company says are transforming the way medical care is provided to achieve the highest clinical quality at the lowest sustainable cost. Intermountain’s... 21 September 2018
A case study by an international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins Medicine, published online in Academic Medicine, looked at what prevented employees from raising patient-safety concerns and identifies measures to help healthcare organizations encourage employees to speak up. It recommends a systematic... 21 September 2018
Titan Medical Inc., a device company focused on a robotic surgical system for application in single-port minimally invasive surgery (“MIS”) and Mimic Technologies Inc. (“Mimic”), a provider of robotic simulation equipment, completed the core surgical skills simulation modules for use with Titan’s SPORT Surgical System surgeon workstation. The successful... 20 September 2018
Uganda Christian University (UCU) opened the new UCU School of Medicine (UCUSoM) in Namirembe. The first class of 62 students – 35 female and 27 male students was admitted after the school was accredited by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE). Uganda Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said... 18 September 2018
Western Connecticut Health Network Emergency Medical Services will offer a Basic Emergency Medical Technician Course (EMT-B) at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut that begins on October 1, 2018 to teach the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities for participants to become valuable members of the emergency healthcare system. The course will... 17 September 2018
Halldale Group, a leading supplier of information on simulation and training, has launched a new corporate website, www.halldale.com. This website, along with three magazine websites and four event websites, will form Halldale Group’s online presence. Andy Smith, Halldale Group CEO, comments, “We are excited to launch the new Halldale.com to... 17 September 2018
Aya Healthcare, a company that provides national healthcare staffing and workforce solutions with traveling clinicians, partnered with Health Scholars, a provider of experiential learning and simulation training for clinicians, to use Health Scholars’ screen-based virtual reality (VR) simulation course content to provide continuing education to its travel nurses. Health Scholars... 14 September 2018
The University of Newcastle’s Laureate Professor Nick Talley and Conjoint Senior Lecturer Dr Simon O’Connor were recognized for their work in medical education at the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Awards 2018. Taking out first prize in the Medicine category for their Talley & O’Connor’s Clinical Examination 8th edition,... 13 September 2018
TransEnterix Inc., a medical device company that provides a digitized interface between surgeons and patients, filed a FDA 510(k) submission for its Senhance Ultrasonic Instrument System to improve minimally invasive surgery that could help increase patient safety. Advanced energy devices, including ultrasonic devices, are some of the most versatile and critical tools... 12 September 2018
In a proof of concept study, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have successfully performed 3D personalized virtual simulations of the heart to accurately identify where cardiac specialists should electrically destroy cardiac tissue to stop potentially fatal irregular and rapid heartbeats in patients with scarring in the heart. The retrospective... 12 September 2018
PBS will air a new film by Ken Burns, THE MAYO CLINIC: FAITH – HOPE – SCIENCE, on September 25, 2019 at 9 p.m. ET and again on the 26th at 10 p.m. in the United States. The two-hour documentary tells the story of how a doctor and his sons... 10 September 2018