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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...