A nursing program at Bismarck State College is running simulations in Spanish to increase cultural competency of nursing students. Language barriers are often challenging in health care, particularly for nurses who don't speak a patient's language. The Dakota Nursing Program at BSC collaborated with a Spanish professor and his class to...
An unlikely pairing between construction machine manufacturing Caterpillar (CAT) and OSF Healthcare in Illinois is helping doctors perform complex heart surgeries by modeling a patient’s heart using 3D printing. Physicians from OSF Healthcare sought help from Caterpillar after a chance encounter between Matthew Bramlet, a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Hospital of Illinois, and a...
By Chris Baraniuk As my syringe presses against the skin and muscle surrounding a patient’s knee joint, I feel a brief resistance. A gentle increase in pressure, though, and the needle pops through, ready to inject the drug. But this isn’t a real patient or syringe – they’re both virtual.
Elsevier, an information analytics company specializing in science and health, along with the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), are hosting a 48-hour Medical Education Hackathon on August 25, ahead of AMEE's annual conference in Helsinki, Finland. Building on the success of the 2015 hackathon, the event will bring...
NuVasive, a medical device company that focuses on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, launched its RELINE® Trauma portfolio, a new trauma system that supports surgeons in the increasing transition from open to MAS spine procedures. The company says RELINE Trauma is the first system to give...
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Regenstrief Institute launched a new tool to help make sure medical students and trainees get real-world experience using electronic health records (EHR) during their training. Because the majority of today’s physicians graduate from medical school without comprehensive HER training, the Indiana University School...
Last October, the Medical University of South Carolina began its 13th year of the Senior Mentor Program, in which the 180 members of the College of Medicine Class of 2020 were introduced to their 90 Senior Mentors. Dr. Heather Boger, PhD who is the director of the College of Medicine...
Stanford Medicine X | ED, an academic conference on the future of medical education, will be held April 22-23 at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In its inaugural year as a stand-alone conference, the event will focus on how to...
The Montana Family Medicine Residency program is unique. Started in 1995 and designed to train and place more family medicine practitioners across the state, the residency program is sponsored by RiverStone Health, St. Vincent Healthcare and Billings Clinic and housed at RiverStone. "It's unique that it's housed in a...
She was just 15 when it happened. She started having trouble breathing when she ran cross-country, and she felt intense itching on her body, especially her lower limbs. She would stay up all night because of it, but she wasn't really worried, just annoyed. After visits to different skin doctors, an...