The University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in Tampa, Florida hired Yasuharu (Haru) Okuda, MD, FACEP, FSSH, as executive director. Dr. Okuda was also named the first executive director of USF Health’s Interprofessional Education Simulation (IPE) Programming and appointed a USF Health faculty Professor...
As we see improvements in technology performance and assessment there is also the opportunity to significantly reduce cost of medical education and training. Paul Pribaz reports. Natalia Grudzien, a second-year medical student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP), lifts two controllers up to her...
Surgical training company National Bioskills Laboratories (NBL) opened a third location this month in San Francisco, establishing a west coast facility as it builds a national network of full-service bioskills training facilities that provide medical device companies and physicians with full-service planning and execution for hands-on training events. This new...
The Boise State College of Nursing’s Simulation Team won the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) 2018 Frontline Simulation Champions Excellence Award for providing exceptional simulation education for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as education and consultation for faculty throughout the nation. The award acknowledges a...
Sidra Medicine signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qatar University Health (QU Health) – Doha, Qatar, to offer clinical training and rotation programs for students from QU’s Colleges of Health Sciences, Medicine and Pharmacy. The agreement is an extension of the MoU that was signed to support the education...
The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), in partnership with Hawaii’s major teaching hospitals, is addressing the state’s worsening physician shortage by placing 240 doctors to work every year as trainees in its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program. As many as 80 percent of the doctors...
Toyoda Gosei and EBM Corporation in Japan developed a prototype “Super BEAT” surgical training simulator that can reproduce a heart beating with extreme accuracy – it’s an artificial muscle that uses e-rubber, a next-generation rubber that functions with electricity and mechanical force. EBM is a Waseda University-launched startup (established in...
Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s first class of students began classes July 2 at what the school says is the first engineering-based medical school. The school is a partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Carle Health System. It’s goal is to create a cohort of physician-innovators...
Environmental Tectonics Corporation's (ETC) Simulation business unit won a contract to deliver an Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS(TM)) system to Northern College of Applied Arts & Technology’s Emergency Services Complex in Ontario, Canada. The ADMS-COMMAND virtual reality training system will be incorporated into the Health Sciences and Emergency Services programs...
Suicide rates in the United States are up nearly 30 percent since 1999, according to data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To help address this growing epidemic, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy aimed at increasing awareness about the risks for suicide...