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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
CAE says it will invest C$1 billion over the next five years in innovation to stay at the forefront of the training industry. One of the main objectives of the investment is to fund Project Digital Intelligence, a digital transformation project to develop the next generation training solutions for aviation,...