MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention. Hospital organization. Competency based training and practice. Breaking down silos. Valid assessment tools...

2014 IMSH The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare provided insights on the state-of-the-art in learning technologies for healthcare professionals. Editor in Chief Judith Riess and Group Editor Marty Kauchak attended the conference with Halldale Media Group Publisher and CEO Andy Smith and provide this report. A match-board exercise on...

 James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit...

Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides insights on the development of the BioGears™ open-source physiology engine. In January Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) announced they were awarded a multiyear, $7 million assistance agreement by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) in Fort Detrick, Maryland under Contract Number: W81XWH-13-2-0068.

Suzanne M. Wright, PhD and Michael D. Fallacaro, DNS discuss their program to enhance patient safety – through crisis resource team training. Project Director Suzanne M. Wright, PhD, in the simulation control room. (Photo: Virginia Commonwealth University) Suzanne M. Wright, PhD and Michael D. Fallacaro, DNS describe one effort to...

James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit...

Do we have a system of healthcare or do we have many systems with many players all trying to play the game, with few playing by the same set of rules? In fact, many players don’t understand that each of the disparate players in the game have a set of...

KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, CENP educates and informs the community about the alliance. The purpose of the CSA is to become a cohesive voice for simulation in nursing education across the state, to disseminate information to stakeholders, and to establish a universal entity for simulation.

Gary Hamill, EdD, describes recent research efforts to demonstrate the potential of physiologic self-regulation and imagery training strategies to increase psychomotor capacity and improve performance. Performing a medical procedure requires a tremendous amount of psychomotor capacity - your head, hands, and the team with whom you are working have to...

Since its inception more than a century ago, modern medical education has undergone a series of quiet revolutions, stretching and scaling to accommodate advances in biomedical science. Yet this comprehensive expansion in one critical area masks a relative neglect of another. Despite their staggering scope – spanning genetics to geriatrics...