Clemson University and Greenville Health System (GHS) jointly opened a $31.5 million, 78,000-square-foot education and research facility on Greenville Memorial Medical Campus that will be home to Clemson’s School of Nursing. The collaborative effort between GHS and the university, the facility will bring an expansion to the school’s nursing program that...
Studica Limited Canada, a retailer for academic software and technology products, expansion of its learning solutions for secondary and post-secondary healthcare programs. The expansion features simulators and models for teaching key nursing skills, including catheterization, wound care and injection administration. The training tools are paired with curriculum that focuses on...
When NYU announced it was offering full-tuition scholarships, it said it was part of an effort to build three-year medical school programs. The American Medical Association (AMA) says this effort is one element in the movement to modernize medical education, offering a challenge to the four-year model that has been...
An analysis by Andy Smith, Medical Training Magazine publisher Every country in the world would seem to have its own ‘danger month;’ the month when newly minted residents arrive at hospitals, having passed medical school with a mostly outdated ‘assessment system,’ consisting of a written exam and possibly, several simulation...
NYU School of Medicine is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit – to address the rising costs of medical education and still attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine. NYU has yearly tuition...
Sponsored Content The British Army will host Medical Innovation 2018 at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham on 2-3 October. The conference, led by The U.K. Ministry of Defence’s will present the latest research on the patient and caregiver’s journey and innovation that seeks to improve the outcome for both. The conference will...
FundamentalVR, providers of immersive training technology for the medical community, launched Fundamental Surgery in the United States, what the company says is a first-of-its-kind SaaS (software as a service) software platform that combines virtual reality (VR) with haptics (the sense of touch) to create a low-cost and scalable flight-simulator...
New York Medical College (NYMC) in Vallhalla, New York and Rome Memorial Hospital (RMH) established an academic affiliation designating the hospital as a teaching site NYMC’s third- and fourth-year medical students. The agreement outlines a mutual commitment to promoting medical education programs, meeting the medical care needs of the community...
Osso VR, a virtual reality (VR) surgical training technology company, launched its collaborative training feature that lets multiple surgeons train together in a single immersive VR space. The option to train collaboratively a moment’s notice offers improved learning opportunities for surgeons and surgical teams regardless of their physical locations,...
The National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NM&SC), sponsored by the NTSA, will hold its 2018 National Meeting September 25-26 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, Nebraska. The meeting will focus on Improving Human Performance and Effectiveness and will feature presentations from...