"I think I'm going to throw up," said Noelle, an electronic dummy "giving birth" in the back of a Salem Fire Department ambulance Friday. "Me too," said Tim Sice, as he and fellow firefighters Steve Woitkun and Joe Scanlon surround Noelle, checking her medical stats and the position of her...
Whether they are part of undergraduate (UME) or graduate medical education (GME), educators training future physicians have the same goals for the next generation of doctors. They want, among other things, physicians to work in teams, see their patients in a social context, advocate for their patients and challenge authority...
Surgical skills cannot be mastered by simple observation or by operating skills learned in the anatomy room. The demand for high efficiency and the lack of valuable operating time leaves little time for surgeons to train students within the operating environment. These clinical pressures, along with the successful introduction of...
Undergraduate nurses generally learn how to administer medicine in a “calm and uninterrupted” training environment, noted researchers. But they said this does not reflect the realities of everyday nursing and argued that nurses working on busy wards often have to contend with “multiple interruptions” while giving out medication. The impact...
HELENA — The state unveiled a new high-tech tool Monday that officials hope will save people’s lives someday. Three mobile simulation training trucks have been provided to the state through a $4.6 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. “It’s not every day that the...
Michigan Medicine will more than double the size of its Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals. The $4.75 million renovation of the Medical Science Building II will include a second Clinical Simulation Center location that will open in January 2018. The existing...
Officials at New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are on a mission to change the academic and behavioral cultures at the medical school following the death of a fourth-year medical student last fall, according to The Wall Street Journal. In a letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine last...
Baystate Health and UMass Medical School are hoping to get $3.4 million in state money to build their new medical school in Springfield. "We think this would be a worthy investment in primary care for the region for the next several decades," said Ben Craft, a spokesman for Baystate Health.
Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR respectively) are long lost brothers; both of them only started developing properly in recent years but until now VR has always been the big brother that has firmly stolen the attention of the mass market. However, AR is coming into its own and...
With two or three ambulances covering all of Lafayette County, there are often times when there’s more need for medical assistance than there are ambulances available. Oxford’s population almost doubles on home football game weekends. Other popular sporting events at FNC or the John Leslie Tennis Courts also often bring...