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Operative Experience, a developer of high-fidelity human patient simulators, launched RealMom™, a full-body childbirth simulator designed to revolutionize the way clinicians and practitioners develop proficiency in labor and delivery procedures. Leapfrogging today’s hard-plastic birthing manikins, the company says, “RealMom is the most natural and realistic childbirth simulator ever created,” featuring... 20 June 2017
The Sage Colleges has received a $100,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation for the planned expansion of the Nursing and Health Sciences Simulation Lab located on the Russell Sage College campus. According to a news release from the college, the money will help to fund the addition of... 16 June 2017
Have you ever trained in a medical simulation lab and felt the stiff mannequins and repetitive scenarios were outdated? Ryan Ribeira, an Emergency Medicine resident physician, wants to change this. He is the CEO of SimX, a Silicon Valley-startup that aims to bring virtual reality and augmented reality to medical training. I... 16 June 2017
In order to invent new medical devices to address problems in health care, the doctors and engineers in Stanford Biodesign’s year-long fellowship program spend up to six weeks immersed in the hospital or other health-care facilities, watching procedures and asking questions. For undergraduate and graduate students in Biodesign’s introductory classes, firsthand observation... 15 June 2017
Alberta air ambulance paramedics are now able to perfect their trade without leaving the ground. On Thursday, Alberta Health Services unveiled a Canadian first — a mobile air ambulance simulator that will be used for training medics. The 12-metre simulation trailer, developed in-house by Alberta Health Services and partners, allows... 15 June 2017
A groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus was held Tuesday, June 6 at The Medical Center at Bowling Green. This four-year, regional campus medical school is the first of its kind in Kentucky and is a partnership between The Medical Center, the University of... 15 June 2017
May 18, 2017 03:30 pm News Staff – Building the primary care pipeline to bring family physicians where they're most needed will take time and money, and recent research suggests that federal funding of teaching health centers (THCs) is a key part of that support. Researchers at the Robert Graham... 14 June 2017
CHI St. Vincent today debuted a newly expanded simulation lab to provide additional capacity to train medical professionals about how to continue to improve quality in patient interactions. The expanded lab more than doubles the size of the former training space used to simulate... 14 June 2017
Operative Experience, a developer of high-fidelity human simulators for surgical and pre-hospital education, launch its Tactical Hemorrhage Control Trainer (THCT) that’s designed to provide critical medical intervention training that can help save lives in real-world mass casualty and disaster events. The THCT is a tactical medicine simulator for training law... 14 June 2017
A programme to train young Emiratis in emergency medical care was announced on Monday. The National Ambulance, in coordination with the University of Sharjah (UoS), rolled out a one-year Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training course for the Emiratis in the Northern Emirates to qualify as emergency pre-hospital care professionals. The... 13 June 2017
Building the primary care pipeline to bring family physicians where they're most needed will take time and money, and recent research suggests that federal funding of teaching health centers (THCs) is a key part of that support. Researchers at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and... 12 June 2017
Michigan Medicine will expand Clinical Simulation Center Plans to expand Michigan Medicine’s Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals, took a step forward today with U-M Board of Regents approval of the project’s proposed budget and design plans. The $4.75 million renovation of... 12 June 2017
Shawnee Mission Health is celebrating the opening of the new Zamierowski Simulation Center and Rodgers Conference Center on the Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) campus, in Shawnee Mission, Kan. These new facilities are the final components of the hospital’s $22 million renovation of the first floor of the original hospital... 12 June 2017
The Mobile area has many sites for tourists to visit. The Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center and IMAX Theater, the USS Alabama Battleship, the beautiful flowers of Bellingrath Gardens, dipping your toes in the warm Gulf waters off Dauphin Island, celebrating Mardi Gras at the Mobile Carnival Museum. There’s one other attraction in Mobile that may... 9 June 2017
Years of advocacy spearheaded by medical students and residents in Virginia, coordinating with other physicians in the state, have led to funding to create an additional 25 graduate medical education (GME) slots during a time of stagnant funding and unchanged volumes of available residency slots nationwide. The federal government is... 9 June 2017
Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service has highlighted new medical simulator technology it has acquired to help train its crews. The air ambulance provider has taken delivery of Apollo, which it described as a state-of-the-art male medical mannequin, along with a female called Lucina. Dr Andy Caldin of the RFDS South... 9 June 2017
One after another, the long-established physicians stood behind the podium to repeat the same mantra to the fresh-faced medical students. Be passionate about your career, they insisted. Be compassionate with your patients, they added. And above all else, be human with everything you do. I didn't expect such a warm... 8 June 2017
Research conducted by Matthew Ritter, MD, FACS (associate professor and vice chair for Education at Uniformed Services University, and a Surgical Endoscopist) and his team, indicates simulation based mastery learning (SBML) using Limbs & Things Endoscopy Training System is a good choice for novice learners preparing for the Fundamentals of Endoscopic... 8 June 2017
KOCHI: Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi will provide specialty medical care to the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces (BAF), their retired personnel and their family members. An agreement in this regard covering patient care, medical education, research, training and exchange of healthcare professionals was signed by BAF director general of... 7 June 2017
Healthcare Learning Innovations launched of Sentinel City® 3.0 Population Health Simulation – an educational simulation designed by nurse educators for use in community, public health or other nursing courses. The simulation provides practice experience and simulated clinical hours for students, and can help ease the burden of managing clinical hours. 6 June 2017