In order to invent new medical devices to address problems in health care, the doctors and engineers in Stanford Biodesign’s year-long fellowship program spend up to six weeks immersed in the hospital or other health-care facilities, watching procedures and asking questions. For undergraduate and graduate students in Biodesign’s introductory classes, firsthand observation...
Alberta air ambulance paramedics are now able to perfect their trade without leaving the ground. On Thursday, Alberta Health Services unveiled a Canadian first — a mobile air ambulance simulator that will be used for training medics. The 12-metre simulation trailer, developed in-house by Alberta Health Services and partners, allows...
A groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus was held Tuesday, June 6 at The Medical Center at Bowling Green. This four-year, regional campus medical school is the first of its kind in Kentucky and is a partnership between The Medical Center, the University of...
May 18, 2017 03:30 pm News Staff – Building the primary care pipeline to bring family physicians where they're most needed will take time and money, and recent research suggests that federal funding of teaching health centers (THCs) is a key part of that support. Researchers at the Robert Graham...
CHI St. Vincent today debuted a newly expanded simulation lab to provide additional capacity to train medical professionals about how to continue to improve quality in patient interactions. The expanded lab more than doubles the size of the former training space used to simulate...
Operative Experience, a developer of high-fidelity human simulators for surgical and pre-hospital education, launch its Tactical Hemorrhage Control Trainer (THCT) that’s designed to provide critical medical intervention training that can help save lives in real-world mass casualty and disaster events. The THCT is a tactical medicine simulator for training law...
A programme to train young Emiratis in emergency medical care was announced on Monday. The National Ambulance, in coordination with the University of Sharjah (UoS), rolled out a one-year Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training course for the Emiratis in the Northern Emirates to qualify as emergency pre-hospital care professionals. The...
Building the primary care pipeline to bring family physicians where they're most needed will take time and money, and recent research suggests that federal funding of teaching health centers (THCs) is a key part of that support. Researchers at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and...
Michigan Medicine will expand Clinical Simulation Center Plans to expand Michigan Medicine’s Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals, took a step forward today with U-M Board of Regents approval of the project’s proposed budget and design plans. The $4.75 million renovation of...
Shawnee Mission Health is celebrating the opening of the new Zamierowski Simulation Center and Rodgers Conference Center on the Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) campus, in Shawnee Mission, Kan. These new facilities are the final components of the hospital’s $22 million renovation of the first floor of the original hospital...