A Boise State University team of nursing and gaming professionals developed a wearable technology that lets its nursing students practice complex simulations – at a lower cost than more standard training. The Virtual Reality Nursing Simulation with Custom Haptic System for Patient Safety is a wearable technology that lets students...

The University of Central Florida  (UCF) College of Medicine in Orlando will start a new Emergency Medicine residency program in July 2016 and is recruiting several residents to start this summer. The medical school’s newest graduate medical education (GME) training program is in partnership with Osceola Regional Medical Center and...

Surgical Theater, a provider of medical virtual reality, will present its first-of-its kind virtual reality surgical visualization platform for neurosurgery at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2016), today, April 6, in Silicon Valley. The company says its VR medical visualization solution supports all elements of patient care from the...

The Autism Society of Central Texas produced a training video to help educate law enforcement officers and emergency responders how to approach, talk with and respond to people with autism.

The Autism Society of Central Texas produced a training video to help educate law enforcement officers and emergency responders how to approach, talk with and respond to people with autism. The Society worked with Red Media Group, Chester Security, parents and individuals with autism to create the free training video...

ChartWise Medical Systems, a provider of Computer-Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement (CACDI) software, introduced ChartWise Advisory Services – training and support for its ChartWise 2.0 software users. ChartWise Advisory Services includes a range of options for clinical documentation specialists, hospital administrators and health care professionals to ensure they have the training...

Directors of general surgery residency programs believe flexible work-hour schedules for surgeons in training (residents) improve the continuity of patient care and resident training without compromising patient safety, according to findings of survey conducted in conjunction with the Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) Trial. The FIRST...

St. Elizabeth Healthcare began construction on a $3 million medical simulation center that will serve healthcare professionals from the company’s seven Northern Kentucky hospitals as well as its specialty and physicians’ offices. The new 24,081-square-foot St. Elizabeth Training & Education Center (SETEC) will be 55 percent larger than its current...

Waveny Care Center – a Waveny LifeCare Network skilled nursing and short-term rehab facility – partnered with the of the Norwalk Community College’s (NCC) Nursing and Allied Health Simulation Center to provide hands-on simulation training for its nurses who care for Waveny’s short-term rehab patients. The “Waveny Care Center Assessment...

The U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command took over the Medical Skills Training Center (MSTC) at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey to provide combat medics with the required training for Emergency Medical Training certification. The Army’s 21 MSTCs in the U.S. provide combat medics the required 72 hours of...