The Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health is partnering with four universities in China and South Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) based in Vienna, Austria to enhance research, teaching and overall public health practice across the globe. The five-year agreements lay the groundwork for faculty...
Philips North America and Texas A&M University System are collaborating to create integrated Emergency Medical Services (EMS) technologies for more efficient and effective coordination of response efforts, and developing point-of-care diagnostics and biosurveillance to help avoid epidemics and pandemics. As part of the collaboration, Philips and The Texas A&M University...
VirtaMed introduced the ArthroS™ Hip Module for the VirtaMed ArthroS™ simulator – an anatomic model that the company says looks, feels and behaves like a real hip. Surgical trainees can palpate the bony landmarks or manipulate the joint to find their way and learn to use fluoroscopic imaging in a...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) issued a multicenter research trial waiver and seed funding to the “Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) Trial” for the 2016−2017 academic year, based on the recommendation of the ACGME Review Committee for Surgery.” The ACGME Task Force reviewing...
Continuing Education Company (CEC), a provider of live primary care continuing medical education (CME) conferences, launched CME365™, a website that offers online CME courses. The company says it created the new website in response to a growing demand for commercial-free, online medical education that makes it easy for clinicians to earn...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave $1.6 million to two institutions to improve health in the Arkansas Delta area by providing on-site simulation training for rural providers. The Greater Delta Alliance for Health got $752,832, a little more than a third of which will be to contract with the University...
Liberty University's School of Nursing received full accreditation for its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program through the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) for the maximum 5-year period allowed for new programs. CCNE is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a national accreditation agency and serves higher...
OSF Healthcare’s Saint Anthony College of Nursing in Rockford, Illinois added two new simulation labs including a neonatal/obstetrics (OB) lab that gives nursing students the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be an OB nurse during childbirth and a community lab constructed like a living room to simulate...
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Nursing developed a computerized haptic system for nasogastric tube (NGT) placement training, letting nursing students to practice NGT insertion in a simulated virtual environment. The school says it’s the first computerized haptic system developed for training nurses in clinical skills in...
Military surgeons face a unique challenge in that they serve as a “jack-of-all-trades” in an austere environment while deployed, only to return home to the expectation that they will compete with the standards of civilian surgical care, which has become increasingly subspecialized and highly dependent on minimally invasive technology. To...