The American Academy of Pediatrics says federal funding for graduate medical education (GME) needs to be increased to help address the shortage of pediatric specialists, in a newly updated American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement. The “Financing Graduate Medical Education to Meet the Needs of Children and the Future...
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales launched a new nursing education strategy called “The Future of Nursing Education in Wales: Education Strategy 2016”, saying the next generation of nurses needs an education that will give them the intellectual skills of problem-solving, clinical decision making, professional judgment, and research appraisal...
The Maryland Board of Nursing gave Kaplan University approval to offer its nurse practitioner programs – Adult Gerontology and Family, Post Masters, and Masters – to students in Maryland. The approval allows Kaplan University (KU) Maryland and its campuses in Hagerstown and Rockville to begin enrolling prospective students in the...
Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Washington acquired a SynDaver artificial cadaver as a teaching tool to add realism to its anatomy and physiology classes – a required class for its pre-nursing students. The SynDaver features synthetic human tissues and body parts. It has hundreds of replaceable muscles, bones, organs,...
Sacred Heart Health System and the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine are collaborating to operate physician residency programs in Pensacola, Florida to train medical school graduates specializing in pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Sacred Heart has operated residency programs in pediatrics as well as obstetrics and gynecology since...
Marshall B. Ketchum University in Fullerton, California invested in new simulation equipment as the school evolves into an interprofessional institution. Previously offering just optometry education, the school recently added a Physician Assistant program and is in the midst of accreditation reviews for the Pharmacy program it hopes to add this...
Riverside Community Hospital accepted 25 residents as the inaugural cohort for its new Riverside Community Hospital/University of California (UC) Riverside School of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program. The residents’ names were announced during the annual Match Day event, when graduating medical students learn where they will be spending the next...
The National Healthcare Group (NHG), Serious Games Association (SGA) and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) signed a Memorandum of Intent to collaborate on applying serious gaming technology within the healthcare industry and launched its first effort: a national competition in Singapore called the Health Innovation Technology Challenge. The Challenge...
Remote Medical International® (RMI) in Seattle, Washington, a provider of remote medical training and medical support services, is expanding its training offering to provide some courses in a hybrid virtual and traditional classroom format. The addition of the new virtual and physical classroom hybrid model means RMI students will be able...
Epsom and St Helier hospitals in the United Kingdom opened a new £100,000 simulation training centre to let doctors and nurses hone their skills and test their reactions during life or death situations. The centre has a collection of six simulation manikins that represent different ages and genders (including a...