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