This September 20, HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak conducted an exclusive interview with Joshua Wynne, MD, MBA, MPH, the vice president for Health Affairs, Dean, of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, regarding the school’s newly opened building. An overview of their discussion follows. This...
Education Management Solutions, LLC (EMS), a provider of integrated audio-video and simulation management technologies, congratulates the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) Program on the opening of the new National Simulation Center near Orlando, at Lake Nona, Florida. The 51,000-square-foot SimLEARN facility provides an immersive...
What every manager should know about training. An insider’s guide to getting your money’s worth from training! I was referred to the above book by two colleagues specializing in cabin crew training for the airline industry as a great quick reference and refresher on the topic by an authority on...
medskl.com, open-access, online medical learning resource launched today, saying “No matter where they are, the next generation of physicians will now be able to learn from the best medical professors in the world for free.” A Canadian innovation, medskl.com is a new way of teaching medicine – and promises to...
3D Systems launched its Jaw in a Day®, the latest addition to its VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) Reconstruction product line. Jaw in a Day is a patient-specific process that lets surgeons perform a full jaw reconstruction in a single surgery – which could spare patients from months of costly, painful...
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak previews the quickly evolving pace of events leading to the July 2018 projected date for substantial completion and opening of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Global Center. While the first shovel of dirt for the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Global Center foundation is...
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) got a $3 million grant from Kaiser Permanente to create an undergraduate program designed to help underrepresented students enter graduate-level study in the health and biomedical fields. It kicked off this semester in response to the growing need for health care professionals in Georgia's underserved...
University of California San Francisco’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) received $85 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue to provide training, research support and other services, and to launch new programs aimed at diversifying the patients in research and advancing precision medicine.
Children with congenital heart defects often undergo a battery of strenuous examinations and interventions. Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG) researchers developed software to simulate certain interventions in advance, which led to a reduced need to perform numerous interventions. (Fraunhofer is a German organization for applied science comprised of 80 research units, 57...
Pocket Nurse ® will acquire Eriter Creations, Inc. (ECI), manufacturer of the SimLeggings™, SimSleeves™, and SimObesity™ simulation products. SimLeggings and SimSleeves simulate pitting edema, and SimObesity accessories simulate obesity. These sim accessory product solutions present the physical complexities of caring for these patients for students in nursing, EMS and physical...