The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is taking action. After surveying a little over 500 hospital staff and trainees all across the UK, the results indicated surgeons need proper breaks to improve patient safety. Surgeon Break Room & Patient Safety Lack of communication, high levels of stress, and...
Simlat, a provider of training and simulation systems for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), is delivering a new high-fidelity maritime simulation to new and existing customers.
The nursing school at The University of North Carolina is the first school to have the latest model of SimMom, an advanced birthing simulator. The $45,000 investment will better prepare students for childbirth and improve patient care. SimMom, Improving Maternal & Neonatal Outcomes The childbirth simulator has been updated and...
The Penn State College of Nursing opened a forensic simulation lab at its Pennsylvania Sexual Assault Forensic Examination and Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center where students can learn how to care for sexual assault victims and the forensic work involved in that care. The college recently opened the SAFE-T Center to help...
From knee surgery to delivering a child, simulations are as close to a live clinical experience a medical students can get. In an attempt to teach safe practices and techniques when prescribing opioids, medical simulation appears to be very effective according to a study from Stanford University. Close to 50,000...
Choosing a career is difficult, and slightly overwhelming, for high school and college students. Often times students do not receive the opportunity of exploring their career choice beforehand. Adventist Health is helping students make their careers feasible with a summer program that allows them to experience medical school. Adventist Health...
The University of Hawaii’s John A Burns School of Medicine is offering a 5-month long training program as an alternative track for third year medical students. So far, 39 medical students have signed up for this program. Students in this program will be working directly with members of the community...
In this day and age, technology has had a tremendous impact in most industries, especially healthcare. From simulations to robotic assisted surgeries, technology is taking medicine to a whole new level. Telemedicine is making it’s way into the physician to patient relationship. Many physicians are now diagnosing and treating their...
Purdue University is working on a new affordable, self-learning device to be placed into existing MRI machines. This technology will allow medical professionals to better monitor their patients by performing concurrent medical imaging and recording for diagnostic purposes. Ranajay Mandal and Nishant Babaria, graduate research assistants in Purdue's College of...
Surgical robots are becoming a popular commodity in the healthcare industry, however, the high costs and lack of training facilities are limiting the number of robots on the hospital floors. At the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), they have created a trainer surgical robot that could help address this...