Faculty from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) formed a research team to create a mockup operating room (OR) at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston. The prototype was created after three years of research on OR functionality, best practices, modernized OR’s and input from medical...

The University of Mobile’s College of Health Professions will bring Athena, a CAE high-fidelity female patient simulator to its Center for Excellence in Healthcare in Alabama, with the help of a $50,000 grant from The Crampton Trust. Athena is a wireless and tetherless manikin for realistic simulation training for healthcare...

HALO-Flight, Inc. a Helicopter Air Ambulance service in South Texas, is taking EMS training to new levels. HALO-Flight’s EMS Training Academy provides initial EMR, EMT and Advanced EMT courses. in small classes to students, allowing students to receive individualized attention from instructors. HALO-Flight’s EMS Training Academy’s goals and objectives are...

Kentucky is experiencing a shortage of registered nurses in their hospitals and clinics. This shortage is due to the aging "baby boomer" population placing a strain on healthcare resources, the expansion of the Affordable Care Act leading to more people seeking treatment, and the increasing numbers of Kentucky residents being...

The World Bank and the Health Resources and Services Administration just awarded a Yale School of Medicine Team $3.7 million in grant funding. The team was awarded this grant to help strengthen medical education and the healthcare infrastructure in Liberia. The research team, led by director of Yale’s Office of...

Florida Atlantic University just unveiled a new skills center in Research Park in Boca Raton. The newly expanded, 15,000-square-foot Clinical Skills Simulation Center will provide sophisticated simulation and trainer technologies which will be used to educate medical students, residents, nurses and first responders. The advanced technology throughout the new skills...

UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco have recently been acknowledged for their excellence in nursing as well as their quality of patient care and innovations in professional nursing practice. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) awarded UCSF the prestigious Magnet Recognition designation, the highest level of...

Dublin, Ireland has just become home to a state-of-the-art €80 million facility for educating and training medical professionals. The Royal College of Surgeons opened this new ten story building on York Street, making it the largest, most modern facility in all of Europe and one of the top five in...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is when people at very high risk for HIV take HIV medicines daily to lower their chances of getting infected. PrEP is highly effective in preventing HIV if used consistently when prescribed. Despite the benefits of PrEP for high risk patients, medical students are largely undereducated on...

Every four years, athletes around the world prepare to compete in the Winter Olympics with the hopes of bringing home the gold for their country. Next year’s Winter Olympics will be hosted in PyeongChang, Korea. To prepare for the influx of athletes in this northeastern mountainous resort town, Korea has...