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...

Dr. Nick Fletcher discusses the use of Echocardiography simulation as a means to accelerate and enhance traditional clinical teaching. Dr. Nick Fletcher examines using simulation as an educational and training tool to enhance competence in Echocardiography. Physician use of echocardiography in intensive care, anesthesiology, acute and emergency medicine is becoming...

The researchers behind the study analyzed data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), creating a disease-simulation model to estimate the risk of adults of different body weight developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. From this, the researchers then calculated the extent to which overweight and obesity may...

This fall, University of Houston (UH) optometry students began hands-on training in a first-of-its-kind simulation lab that offers them 24/7 access to virtual patients. The Optometric Clinical Skills Simulation Lab, which will better prepare students to administer patient care when they start clinical rotations, is the only one at an...

In the first of several articles, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reviews efforts to improve the US healthcare community’s performance in patient safety. As many as 400,000 people a year die from preventable medical errors in hospitals. This July 17, the US Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s Subcommittee...