Group Editor Marty Kauchak discussed the Center’s history and accomplishments with Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, the founder and executive director.  CMS has an array of simulation activities, all focused on its mission to use simulation to improve safety, quality and education in healthcare. Entering its third decade of service to...

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have completed the first comprehensive numerical simulation of skeletal muscle tissue using a method that uses the pixels in an image as data points for the computer simulation - a method known as mesh-free simulation. The researchers, led by J.S. Chen, the...

Think back to the roots of your EMS education. No matter when it was, there were probably manikins. From a simple CPR trainer to today's high-fidelity manikins, the face of EMS education is evolving to include a focus on simulation because it provides consistency and creates clinical opportunities to assess...

On the 17th July Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed in Ukraine, all 298 people aboard were killed, on the 23rd July, Transasia Airways, GE222 crashed on landing in Taiwan in bad weather with 48 fatalities and on the 24th July, Air Algerie, AH 5017 crashed in Mali, N Africa killing all...

Robert DiRaddo and Christine Bryce talk about the National Research Council of Canada’s simulation technology development.  Realism. Convenience. Affordability. These are objectives the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has embraced over a successful history of developing simulation technologies for applications varying from vehicle part manufacturing to food packaging to...

Lisa V. Adams, MD sheds light on how global health has become its own discipline and how future medical students will define competencies and equities in global health. Over the last decade, the field of global health has grown by every conceivable measure. Students at all levels – sometimes as...

On July 17th the United States Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging met to discuss the leading causes of death in the US. The first two, heart disease, 597,000 and cancer, 574,000 came as no surprise. However, the third leading cause, preventable medical errors in hospitals, 440,000 a year...

Amar Patel, Wake Med Director of the Center for Innovative Learning describes how to develop a business plan and show ROI for your center. Students perform on a manikin as part of simulation technology classes. Most all of us have taken medical simulation classes to improve our caregiving skills using...

Marty Kauchak and James Cypert talk about the importance of standardization in simulation technologies and the training of technicians. SimGHOSTS lead hands-on simulation training event. Mr. Cypert is the technical director for the School of Nursing at California Baptist University. Until February 2014 he was the president of SimGHOSTS, a...

Dr. Dan Katz and Dr. Eric Savitsky describe how they created a cloud based training solution for ultra sound training. This is a three-part series that uses a case study to describe the introduction of disruptive innovation into medical education and training. The first installment describes identifying an unmet need...