Having attended the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) annual meeting this month as well as HPSN and AUA and having listened to many excellent speakers and dedicated professionals discuss what is happening in medicine as well as daily readings of journals , blogs and other media sources it is evident...
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.
It's Thursday morning in early May in the Emergency Department at WakeMed Raleigh Campus, An experienced pediatric trauma physician is trying to help a young boy who appears to be experiencing serious respiratory distress and is not responding to medication. Looking on anxiously, the frantic mother is bombarding the doctor...
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...