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...

Beth Thomas, MD and Gabriel Reedy, PhD describe one of their simulation programs that involves potential learners and helps establish positive partnerships in the community. Medical simulation is not just for the clinical learner; rather, it can have far reaching impact and can contribute meaningfully to the community. The value of...

Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responders felt better prepared to respond to an active shooter incident after receiving focused tactical training according to a new study in the journal Prehospital and Disaster Medicine.

By Columbia University Medical Center  In medicine, as in other fields where a beginner’s mistake can be fatal, simulation-based training bridges the gap between learning and doing. At Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S), medical students practice everything from taking a patient’s medical history - with actors playing the...

Dr. Howard Champion and Dr. Jan Cannon Bowers look at issues to be addressed to make simulation an integral part of experiential medical training.

Staff writer Lesya Hoover reports on the International Collaboration Taking Place to Open Simulation Centers in the Ukraine Lesya Hoover interviews Ukrainian-Swiss Mother and Child Health Programme representatives, Natalia Riabtseva and Grigory Naumovets. On May 30, 2013, the first Ukrainian medical simulation center was officially opened in the Crimean Perinatal...

Jim Carlson, PhD, discusses a program his school uses to enhance clinical reasoning competency.  Jim Carlson, PhD, PA-C, describes Rosalind Franklin’s use of a web-based virtual patient simulator to enhance case-based learning in teaching clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning is complex, requiring significant time and experience to master. Traditionally, this competency...

Editor in Chief Judith Reiss reports from the Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) event which took place at the end of April. HPSN 2014 was held in Sarasota, Florida, which gave the participants of the conference the opportunity to visit the simulator plant and meet the employees where the mannequins...

Staff writer Lori Ponoroff addresses the worldwide nursing shortage by highlighting strategies being used by associations, universities and governments to combat the problem in the first in a series of nursing articles.  Lori Ponoroff discusses one strategy being used to eliminate the worldwide nursing shortage. They’ll need a million in...

Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie share the simulation model they used in the redesign of an Emergency Department. Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie built a model of an Emergency Department that clearly defined and thoroughly tested each process. Hospital Emergency Departments are constantly faced with possible...