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3D Systems signed an agreement with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) to provide simulation equipment and event services at three training centres for the ERS Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) Certified Training Programme. EBUS is a minimally invasive procedure that can be used on an outpatient basis to not only diagnose and... 5 September 2018
The Duke University School of Nursing welcomed its second class of participants to its year-long professional development Emerging Leaders Program for nursing school staff that’s put on by the School of Nursing and Duke Learning & Organization Development, a unit within Duke Human Resources. The program consists of six sessions that feature coursework... 4 September 2018
Jump Simulation, a part of OSF Innovation and a collaboration of OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, was recertified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as an outstanding center for simulation education. Jump is one of the largest purpose-built simulation and health care engineering... 31 August 2018
Inovus Medical, a designer and manufacturer of medical and surgical simulation products, launched its Bozzini™ Hysteroscopy Simulator that has an anatomically correct uterus with interchangeable pathologies for practicing diagnosis and intraoperative management. The pathologies include endometrial polyps, intrauterine adhesions and endometrial cancer/fibroid as well as a bicornate uterus. They offer... 30 August 2018
Inc. Magazine named SonoSim, Inc., as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. With a revenue increase of nearly 100 percent, SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and simulation, is now one of the top five fastest-growing education companies in Los Angeles. SonoSim attributes its continued growth in... 29 August 2018
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is making its Shared Learning Network available to hospitals and healthcare organizations that formally commit to implementing patient safety processes that align with its 16 challenges and 31 Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS). The Shared Learning Network is a forum for representatives from committed... 28 August 2018
The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University is accepting applications for its first class, which will begin in July at the Clifton and Nutley campus 12 miles from New York City. The first private medical school to open in New Jersey hopes to address the shortage of physicians... 24 August 2018
Clemson University and Greenville Health System (GHS) jointly opened a $31.5 million, 78,000-square-foot education and research facility on Greenville Memorial Medical Campus that will be home to Clemson’s School of Nursing. The collaborative effort between GHS and the university, the facility will bring an expansion to the school’s nursing program that... 24 August 2018
Studica Limited Canada, a retailer for academic software and technology products, expansion of its learning solutions for secondary and post-secondary healthcare programs. The expansion features simulators and models for teaching key nursing skills, including catheterization, wound care and injection administration. The training tools are paired with curriculum that focuses on... 23 August 2018
When NYU announced it was offering full-tuition scholarships, it said it was part of an effort to build three-year medical school programs. The American Medical Association (AMA) says this effort is one element in the movement to modernize medical education, offering a challenge to the four-year model that has been... 22 August 2018
An analysis by Andy Smith, Medical Training Magazine publisher Every country in the world would seem to have its own ‘danger month;’ the month when newly minted residents arrive at hospitals, having passed medical school with a mostly outdated ‘assessment system,’ consisting of a written exam and possibly, several simulation... 21 August 2018
NYU School of Medicine is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit – to address the rising costs of medical education and still attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine. NYU has yearly tuition... 20 August 2018
Sponsored Content The British Army will host Medical Innovation 2018 at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham on 2-3 October. The conference, led by The U.K. Ministry of Defence’s will present the latest research on the patient and caregiver’s journey and innovation that seeks to improve the outcome for both. The conference will... 17 August 2018
FundamentalVR, providers of immersive training technology for the medical community, launched Fundamental Surgery in the United States, what the company says is a first-of-its-kind SaaS (software as a service) software platform that combines virtual reality (VR) with haptics (the sense of touch) to create a low-cost and scalable flight-simulator... 17 August 2018
New York Medical College (NYMC) in Vallhalla, New York and Rome Memorial Hospital (RMH) established an academic affiliation designating the hospital as a teaching site NYMC’s third- and fourth-year medical students. The agreement outlines a mutual commitment to promoting medical education programs, meeting the medical care needs of the community... 16 August 2018
Osso VR, a virtual reality (VR) surgical training technology company, launched its collaborative training feature that lets multiple surgeons train together in a single immersive VR space. The option to train collaboratively a moment’s notice offers improved learning opportunities for surgeons and surgical teams regardless of their physical locations,... 15 August 2018
The National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NM&SC), sponsored by the NTSA, will hold its 2018 National Meeting September 25-26 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, Nebraska. The meeting will focus on Improving Human Performance and Effectiveness and will feature presentations from... 14 August 2018
Jump Simulation, a part of OSF Innovation, will receive a $400,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to expand its STEAM (Science, Technology, Art, Engineering and Math) education program to students who are patients at OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois. PNC Bank also pledged $100,000 to sponsor the Angel Ball,... 14 August 2018
Four Purdue University biomedical engineering students developed an anatomically correct, hands-on breastfeeding simulator system to assist the training of perinatal nurses and professionals for their senior design project. The idea came from Tina Babbitt, an Indiana Perinatal Network nurse and lactation consultant, who brought the need for better breastfeeding training... 10 August 2018
Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Maverick Family Nursing Simulation Center received provisional accreditation by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). The provisional accreditation means that Minnesota State Mankato’s nursing simulation center is accredited for two years. At the end of that period, the University will apply for full accreditation status... 10 August 2018