Jim Carlson, PhD, discusses a program his school uses to enhance clinical reasoning competency.  Jim Carlson, PhD, PA-C, describes Rosalind Franklin’s use of a web-based virtual patient simulator to enhance case-based learning in teaching clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning is complex, requiring significant time and experience to master. Traditionally, this competency...

Editor in Chief Judith Reiss reports from the Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) event which took place at the end of April. HPSN 2014 was held in Sarasota, Florida, which gave the participants of the conference the opportunity to visit the simulator plant and meet the employees where the mannequins...

Staff writer Lori Ponoroff addresses the worldwide nursing shortage by highlighting strategies being used by associations, universities and governments to combat the problem in the first in a series of nursing articles.  Lori Ponoroff discusses one strategy being used to eliminate the worldwide nursing shortage. They’ll need a million in...

Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie share the simulation model they used in the redesign of an Emergency Department. Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie built a model of an Emergency Department that clearly defined and thoroughly tested each process. Hospital Emergency Departments are constantly faced with possible...

Having attended the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) annual meeting this month as well as HPSN and AUA and having listened to many excellent speakers and dedicated professionals discuss what is happening in medicine as well as daily readings of journals , blogs and other media sources it is evident...

MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention.

It's Thursday morning in early May in the Emergency Department at WakeMed Raleigh Campus, An experienced pediatric trauma physician is trying to help a young boy who appears to be experiencing serious respiratory distress and is not responding to medication. Looking on anxiously, the frantic mother is bombarding the doctor...

MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention. Hospital organization. Competency based training and practice. Breaking down silos. Valid assessment tools...

2014 IMSH The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare provided insights on the state-of-the-art in learning technologies for healthcare professionals. Editor in Chief Judith Riess and Group Editor Marty Kauchak attended the conference with Halldale Media Group Publisher and CEO Andy Smith and provide this report. A match-board exercise on...

 James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit...