Harry Robinson was interviewed by Group Editor Marty Kauchak. The interview addressed a wide range of simulation and technology topics pertaining to the VHA SimLEARN program. Harry Robinson, National Program Manager. MEdSim: Congratulations on your recent decision to accept this challenging community leadership position and thanks for taking time to...

The Orlando-based command’s Project Manager (PM) Combined Arms Tactical Trainers (CATT) with Assistant Project Manager (APM) of Medical Simulation (MEDSIM) is working “To put the power of simulations into the hands of our Warfighters.” Soldiers carry a simulated battlefield casualty during a training exercise at the Fort Lewis Medical Simulation...

Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, UK, describes and discusses how healthcare professionals utilize simulation for practice an assessment of technical skills and procedures to enhance competency, improve transfer of knowledge, surgical performance and patient safety.

Don Combs, Ph.D., Vice President and Dean of the School of Health Profession at Eastern Virginia Medical School, provides a groundbreaking examination of return on investment for expenditures in medical simulation. East Virginia medical student reviews patient history in simulation center. (Photo: Author) The emerging discipline of Modeling and Simulation...

Daniel M. Clinchot, M.D. explains the steps taken and the guiding principles used to revise the Ohio State University Medical Undergraduate Curriculum, Lead. Serve. Inspire and why it will produce a better equipped more effective physician. Undergraduate medical education is undergoing a period of fervent curriculum renewal. Many forces such...

Dr. Shad Deering and Dr Taylor Sawyer explain the Central Simulation Committees’ goals, foundation, program components and collaborative efforts to enhance training and simulation in the US military healthcare system. Residents at Medigan engaged in Mobile Emergency Simulation (MOES) exercise developed by Shad Deering, MD, USA. (Photo: Dr. Shad Deering)...

When the Sidra Medical and Research Center’s Clinical Simulation Center opens in 2013, it will provide cutting edge training to its Doha, Qatar-based learning audience, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. When Sidra Medical and Research Center opens its doors in the first half of 2013, it will transform the healthcare...

In 1980 I attended an airline training symposium at which it was stated that if the current rate of accidents per thousand take offs was extrapolated in line with expected growth over the next twenty years, with no improvements to safety, the global industry could expect an accident a week...

Medical simulation centers are emerging around the world to advance medical education to the next level by developing curricula that employs the technology to improve skills and assess performance. The centers are also conducting research that provides evidence to simulation's effectiveness as a learning tool, reports Chuck Weirauch.      Private...

Dimitrios Stefanidis, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, FASMBS, examines issues supporting the use of simulators in medical training. The present paradigm shift from resident training using the Halstedian model, “see one, do one, teach one,” to training using surgical simulators results from concerns for patient safety, limited resident work hours, pressures on...