The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) set up the Air Force’s first operational training program to prepare Air Force mental health care providers, technicians and social workers to join Integrated Operational Support (IOS) teams at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The program opened in May to give...
Fort Worth is now home to the nation’s newest M.D. School after receiving preliminary accreditation from The Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Texas Christian University (TCU) and University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) joined together in July 2015 to form this new medical school that will offer a...
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) bought a new mobile simulation unit that will provide life-saving training to Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) staff and community partners across NGHS’ 18-county service area. The mobile simulation unit will directly enhance the quality of patient care by training NGHS staff how to react...
Kaplan Nursing, which partners with nursing schools to prepare students for licensing exams and careers in healthcare, launched an interactive virtual simulation program through i-Human Patients (IHP) to help train nurses in making clinical judgments. IHP is a high-performance, healthcare case-authoring and playback system that can simulate a nurse’s complete...
DiaMedical USA launched a new product in its SimLabSolutions product line called SimVS tablet, that the company say is an economical platform for lifelike simulation in different settings such as hospital, pre-hospital and respiratory therapy that lets instructors control patient vital signs and diagnostic results. This forces students to use...
The University at Buffalo (UB) School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences built an escape room game for inter-professional training between nursing and pharmacy students to improve teamwork and communication. In the Patient X escape room that simulates a medical clinic, students will have 30 minutes to...
TraumaFX, a division of Kforce Government Solutions Inc. and a provider of ruggedized human and canine medical training simulators, delivered its first phase of shipments for its Tactical Combat Casualty Care – Exportable (TC3X) medical simulators to the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)...
Johns Hopkins Medicine is hosting a two-day continuing education workshop on Improving Patient Safety with Human Factors Methods October 17-18, 2018. This workshop focuses on the use of human factors engineering methods to identify and mitigate system problems that cause human errors and patient-safety hazards in healthcare. Basic principles and...
FundamentalVR, pioneers of immersive training technology for the medical community, named Hybrid Health as its channel partner for Australia and New Zealand markets. The company is looking to Hybrid Health’s connections to energize FundamentalVR’s entry into this market to help expand its sales network. It is also hoping to spread...
ImmersiveTouch, Inc.® launched ImmersiveView™, what it says is the only suite of integrated virtual reality (VR) real-time solutions for personalized surgical planning, patient engagement and surgical training using patented haptic technology. ImmersiveView is designed to optimize outcomes and save costs, decreasing time in the operating room and improving pre-operative planning...