Medical Training Magazine Interviews: Chad Epps MTM: What are learning technologies offering to health care and what is their impact on learning (education and training) across the community? Chad Epps: Our current learning technologies are transforming how we educate healthcare professionals. Technology-enhanced educational environments are more in line with adult...

Every single second, voluminous amount of data is being generated from the healthcare and medicine industry, including the healthtech and wearables sector. Increasingly, the focus has been on how the data could be integrated and used to achieve our collective dream of enabling precision medicine i.e. detecting diseases well before...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia developed a device to make brain surgery safer. A tiny imaging probe, encased within a brain biopsy needle, lets surgeons ‘see’ at-risk blood vessels as they insert the needle, allowing them to avoid causing bleeds that can potentially be fatal. Their project...

Saint Joseph’s College has received a $1.5 million grant from the Harold Alfond Foundation to support the creation of a new academic center in Standish to address critical shortages in Maine’s nursing workforce. According to the foundation, the number of Maine nurses on the verge of retirement is up significantly,...

Nearly two decades after Minnesota State University leaders began envisioning a new building for the College of Allied Health and Nursing, a scaled-back version of their vision is now open. The university's new $27 million Clinical Sciences Building welcomed its first students this week as they returned from winter break.

Surgery sometimes can yield surprises for physicians as they operate on the human body. Now, three-dimensional modeling can take away some of that guesswork. In fact, for many physicians, there’s little that can replace the ability to hold and manipulate an accurate model of the exact area of a patient’s...

The need for hormone therapy often prompts transgender patients to seek treatment from endocrinologists, but many clinicians have received little formal training in this area, according to study results published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.1 "As awareness and insurance coverage of transgender healthcare has increased, there is growing...

As 2017 begins, around 81 percent of Americans live in urban areas, up from 79 percent in 2000. At the same time, urban and suburban areas where vacant land exists (so, not you, San Francisco) have been expanding, redefining what used to be rural. With this demographic shift comes a...

The Roanoke Valley Regional Fire & EMS Academy #20 consisting of 23 personnel representing the Cities of Roanoke and Salem, and Roanoke County graduated on December 15 at the Berglund Center, Performing Arts Theatre. Each recruit was called to the stage and pinned with their official firefighter badge as their...

If an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) needs a medical tool, such as a surgical instrument or a finger splint, they normally have to wait for a resupply mission. But that is about to change this month, when NASA astronauts will use a 3D printer aboard the ISS...