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The Cannabis Care Certification (CCC) program is a new, an online program designed to provide quality information about medical cannabis to individuals who are starting or considering cannabis therapy, and healthcare professionals looking to learn about the endocannabinoid system and medical cannabis. Launched by the Americans for Safe Access, a... 4 January 2017
Toshiba Medical launched new educational tools that it says will help clinicians more easily keep pace with new technology and deliver improved patient care. The new tools and enhancements customize the education process and offer easy, affordable access to the industry’s best set of resources and accreditation opportunities. The company... 8 December 2016
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak provides an update on technology, business development and policy insights of interest to the medical simulation & training community from the 2016 I/ITSEC. The conference convened November 28 - December 1 in Orlando. Technology Developments This author has watched the rapid evolution of serious games for... 7 December 2016
The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted new policies aimed at ensuring medical students and resident and fellow physicians have timely and confidential access to the medical and mental health services they need during their medical training. The new policies will help physicians-in-training maintain their personal health and well-being and reduce... 2 December 2016
Michigan Instruments upgraded its PneuView 3 software that is used with the PneuView 3 Lung Simulation System it introduced in 2015. The new Version 3.1 software offers several new capabilities and improvements to the user interface, based on user feedback and suggestions, according to James Maatman, Michigan Instruments President. Updates... 1 December 2016
Physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) developed a new way to fabricate artificial organs and human anatomy that mimics the real thing, even up to the point of bleeding when cut. These models can create highly realistic simulations for training and could soon be widely used to... 30 November 2016
Patient Care and Patient Safety are Top Priorities for General Surgery Residents Who Choose to Work Additional Hours Under Flexible Schedules FIRST Trial survey results find that many residents selectively work more hours to facilitate care transitions, stabilize critically ill patients, and other important reasons. CHICAGO (November 21, 2016): U.S. 28 November 2016
The U.S. rheumatology workforce is in jeopardy of a serious decline, and help with graduate medical education funding – along with other incentives to pursue rheumatology training – could provide relief, according to research findings presented last week at the 2016 American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP) Annual... 15 November 2016
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak highlights opportunities to support the Pentagon’s quest for medical learning innovation. After more than 15 years of combat in Afghanistan and another concurrent 13 years of warfare in Iraq, the US Defense Department is stepping up its efforts to improve and advance learning technologies for its... 8 November 2016
As the U.S. health care system moves toward value-based care, the American Medical Association (AMA) says medical schools must adapt their curricula so that in addition to the basic and clinical scientific knowledge, students also learn how patients access and receive health care. A new textbook – “Health Systems Science”... 2 November 2016
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak provides details of one of the community’s newest simulation facilities. It’s been an eventful two months at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City. This September, the hospital celebrated its 100th anniversary. And this October, the general medical and surgical hospital opened the new Simulation Center... 1 November 2016
American College of Surgeons Commits to Preventing 30,000 Trauma Deaths per Year Trauma leaders and experts at the 2016 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) committed to work with partners to achieve zero preventable military and civilian deaths from trauma. Reaching that goal, established in a June... 19 October 2016
The American Medical Association (AMA) convened leaders from 32 innovative medical schools from across the country taking part in its Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium to reshape medical education. The Consortium members met to continue group’s work in ensuring future physicians are prepared to care for patients in evolving... 13 October 2016
The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) introduced a new course: the Basic Endovascular Skills for Trauma© (BEST). The BEST course is the third surgical skills course to be offered by the COT, complementing the Advanced Trauma Operative Management and the Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in... 12 October 2016
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak visited the Aeromedical Simulation Training and Education Center at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia on October 7. The center’s expanding, immersive training environment is sustaining the Air Force aeromedical evacuation and enroute care personnel communities’ operational successes, our New Orleans-based correspondent learned. At the start of US... 11 October 2016
MedStar Health is working with a Bethesda-based tech startup firm, Mytonomy, to pioneer a new approach to patient education that delivers individualized instruction through a microlearning software platform that can be accessed from anywhere via the internet. Based on a successful pilot with interventional cardiology patients at MedStar Washington Hospital... 29 September 2016
Stanford University School of Medicine will begin offering a master of science physician assistant program designed to train physician assistants as both clinicians and future leaders in health care. The program will start in the fall of 2017, and applications to be considered for the inaugural class are due November... 29 September 2016
September 22nd saw the second annual Florida Simulation Summit presented by Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs. Its focus was on two growing areas of simulation activity, professional sports and healthcare and it is significant because Central Florida and the High Tech corridor which crosses the state from Dayton Beach to... 28 September 2016
This September 20, HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak conducted an exclusive interview with Joshua Wynne, MD, MBA, MPH, the vice president for Health Affairs, Dean, of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, regarding the school’s newly opened building. An overview of their discussion follows. This... 28 September 2016
Education Management Solutions, LLC (EMS), a provider of integrated audio-video and simulation management technologies, congratulates the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) Program on the opening of the new National Simulation Center near Orlando, at Lake Nona, Florida. The 51,000-square-foot SimLEARN facility provides an immersive... 27 September 2016