Shawnee Mission Health is celebrating the opening of the new Zamierowski Simulation Center and Rodgers Conference Center on the Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) campus, in Shawnee Mission, Kan. These new facilities are the final components of the hospital’s $22 million renovation of the first floor of the original hospital...
The Mobile area has many sites for tourists to visit. The Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center and IMAX Theater, the USS Alabama Battleship, the beautiful flowers of Bellingrath Gardens, dipping your toes in the warm Gulf waters off Dauphin Island, celebrating Mardi Gras at the Mobile Carnival Museum. There’s one other attraction in Mobile that may...
Years of advocacy spearheaded by medical students and residents in Virginia, coordinating with other physicians in the state, have led to funding to create an additional 25 graduate medical education (GME) slots during a time of stagnant funding and unchanged volumes of available residency slots nationwide. The federal government is...
Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service has highlighted new medical simulator technology it has acquired to help train its crews. The air ambulance provider has taken delivery of Apollo, which it described as a state-of-the-art male medical mannequin, along with a female called Lucina. Dr Andy Caldin of the RFDS South...
One after another, the long-established physicians stood behind the podium to repeat the same mantra to the fresh-faced medical students. Be passionate about your career, they insisted. Be compassionate with your patients, they added. And above all else, be human with everything you do. I didn't expect such a warm...
Research conducted by Matthew Ritter, MD, FACS (associate professor and vice chair for Education at Uniformed Services University, and a Surgical Endoscopist) and his team, indicates simulation based mastery learning (SBML) using Limbs & Things Endoscopy Training System is a good choice for novice learners preparing for the Fundamentals of Endoscopic...
KOCHI: Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi will provide specialty medical care to the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces (BAF), their retired personnel and their family members. An agreement in this regard covering patient care, medical education, research, training and exchange of healthcare professionals was signed by BAF director general of...
Healthcare Learning Innovations launched of Sentinel City® 3.0 Population Health Simulation – an educational simulation designed by nurse educators for use in community, public health or other nursing courses. The simulation provides practice experience and simulated clinical hours for students, and can help ease the burden of managing clinical hours.
Holistic physician Susan Lord MD will join the faculty of The American Meditation Institute (AMI) for its 9th annual 30 credit hour mind/body medicine CME conference on meditation, yoga and diaphragmatic breathing for physicians and other health care professionals, October 24-28, 2017 at the Cranwell Resort and Spa in Lenox,...
Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa. - Emergency medicine doctors at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center are taking their training to the next level. Resident physicians worked alongside first responders, practicing life-saving skills that they may need if they're called out to an emergency. "We actually bring the residents out to test some...