Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach practitioners can use to encourage behavior change – helping a patient to devise a plan, stick to it, and feel like a participant in a collaborative relationship. MI has been proven effective across the spectrum of healthcare disciplines, but adoption is relatively low. So...
A new approach to teaching healthcare students safe moving and handling techniques developed by healthcare academics at Birmingham City University in the UK resulted in a 92 percent reduction in student injuries. Last year 7120 students participated in the posture awareness program first introduced in 2009 – and only three...
The British Military has trained more than 4,000 Sierra Leone Ebola healthcare workers in a specially designed three-day class at the Ebola Training Academy National Stadium in Freetown. The trained workers will go to work in one of the many Ebola response Community Care centres and Ebola Treatment Centres across...
EagleMed critical care air medical transport company have had a Mobile Air Medical Education Unit built to simulate medical operations inside the company’s airplanes and helicopters that it’s using as a teaching aid for its clinical practitioners. The trailer-based Mobile Air Medical Education Unit replicates the interior medical environments of...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has launched a 3D Virtual Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (mCRC) Simulator Learning Platform as part of the NCCN Continuing Education Program. NCCN collaborated with Syandus, Inc., a technology company specializing in the development of experiential learning platforms for health care professionals and other learners to...
Dr. Thomas Talbot shares ideas for enhancing the Electronic Medical Record to act as a didactic tool to support physician competency. Although we have fantastic lifelike manikins, virtual reality surgeries, artificial intelligence models, engaging software simulators and even medical games, very little innovation has gone to the medical practice environment...
Jessica Ray, PhD and colleagues discuss how wearable technology improves simulation scenarios and outcomes. Jessica Ray, PhD and colleagues from Yale-New Haven Health System’s SYN:APSE Center for Learning, Transformation, and Innovation describe how they are enhancing simulations for patient and providers through the use of Google Glass. Today healthcare simulation...
ED Scenario’s: Simulating Before Implementing. The third and final article in the series on how to improve the business of healthcare through the use of simulation. Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie, in the third and final article in the series, share their final model to improve efficiency with...
Experiential learning, defined as “learning through experience,” will always be central to medical education. Dr. Eric Savitsky and Dr. Dan Katz report. Recently, performance-based learning has progressively been touted as an alternative to the traditional time-based learning paradigm. This is occurring in an era of cost containment and fiscal austerity...
Dr. Matthew Bramlet describes how 3D printing is being used to improve pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Matthew Bramlet presented a study at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in November involving a 9-month-old girl, a 3-year-old boy and a woman in her 20s, all of whom are his patients in...