HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak highlights the efforts of the simulation and training industry, and healthcare learning audiences to more effectively integrate debriefing into training scenarios and other instruction. Since the mid-1990s, this author has watched the military and civil aviation sectors refine their efforts to record and evaluate efforts by...
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates (HoD) approved a resolution introduced by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and other medical societies to train more professional first responders (i.e., police and firefighters) and civilians as immediate responders in the essential techniques of bleeding control and to place bleeding...
The Patient Safety Movement mid year planning meeting was held on June 10, 2016 at Fairfax Inova Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. Joe Kiani, founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, welcomed all to the meeting and reiterated the objectives and goals of the movement and what we were to...
Stanford University’s Department of Neurosurgery is using Surgical Theater’s VR Visualization Platform to help advance patient engagement and empowerment. Precision VR™, Surgical Theater’s VR medical visualization platform, builds upon the traditional method of the neurosurgeon pointing out the tumor or vascular abnormality on a flat, black-and-white 2D image used in most...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to amend its medical regulations to permit full practice authority to all VA advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) when they are acting within the scope of their VA employment. The VA says this action would increase veterans' access to VA healthcare by...
A new online program to help educate physicians and other health care professionals on the benefits and limitations of genetic testing and when it is appropriate to incorporate it into their practices is now available as the first of a 12-part series launched by The American Medical Association (AMA), Scripps...
Flinders University in Australia plans invest more than $1 million to build a new clinical training facility at the Riverland General Hospital in Berri. The Flinders Rural Health SA simulation centre will offer professional development for clinicians and training for students with high-fidelity human patient simulators at the hospital in...
The Patient Safety Movement is recommending all healthcare organizations around the world implement the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) new CANDOR Toolkit that can help hospitals handle any situation where a patient gets harmed during care – regardless if a true error occurred. The customizable Communication and...
Readers of MTM/MEdSim magazine will remember the Surgicon Conferences in Gothenburg, Sweden, the first to focus on the simulation of surgery and its potential to improve training, assessment and performance three years ago. The Surgicon Foundation has now signed a letter of intent with the Lulea UnIversity of Technology with regard...
The University of South Carolina Salkehatchie got a $100,000 grant BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation to establish the USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative Clinical Nursing Simulation Lab that will allow students to fulfill their educational requirements close to home. The USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative partners with the University...