Healthcare Learning Innovations launched of Sentinel City® 3.0 Population Health Simulation – an educational simulation designed by nurse educators for use in community, public health or other nursing courses. The simulation provides practice experience and simulated clinical hours for students, and can help ease the burden of managing clinical hours.
Holistic physician Susan Lord MD will join the faculty of The American Meditation Institute (AMI) for its 9th annual 30 credit hour mind/body medicine CME conference on meditation, yoga and diaphragmatic breathing for physicians and other health care professionals, October 24-28, 2017 at the Cranwell Resort and Spa in Lenox,...
Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa. - Emergency medicine doctors at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center are taking their training to the next level. Resident physicians worked alongside first responders, practicing life-saving skills that they may need if they're called out to an emergency. "We actually bring the residents out to test some...
Emergency medical technicians are returning to Pittsburgh for the first time in more than a decade as officials work to reinforce the city’s strained paramedic forces. Fourteen new EMTs finish training and hit city streets on May 30, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services Chief Robert Farrow said. The staffing boost...
Technology in medical education remains a trending topic, as was recently evidenced at the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortiumspring meeting. Professors and administrators from the 32 schools in the AMA’s consortium praised the virtues of new tools to enhance online learning while also discussing the glitches that still...
Each month the Prehospital Care Research Forumcombs the literature to identify recent studies relevant to EMS education practices. In this segment PCRF board member Megan Corry shares her insight on a journal article that can help bring evidence-based practices to EMS education. Sinz E, Rudy S, Wojnar M, Bortner T. Teaching...
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alternate Health Corp (CSE:AHG) (OTC:AHGIF), a leader in complementary medicine and patient-focused healthcare, today announced an update and clarification on the first-ever Continuing Medical Education (CME) course approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM regarding treatments of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), including Cannabis. This course has been created in...
May 22--ABU DHABI--A program 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...
Many people know them by a whirring siren, a blur of flashing lights or the thumping of a helicopter thousands of feet overhead. But, for those who have required Emergency Medical Services, the hard-working men and women who rush to the rescue are life-saving heroes. It’s National EMS week, but...
A new study done in the United Kingdom says the majority of final-year medical students in the UK are able to accurately prescribe medications, but a small proportion require further training or supervision before being able to prescribe independently. Prescribing Safety Assessment, an article published in British Journal of Clinical...