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by Judith Riess, Editor of Medical Training Magazine It was my privilege to have a tour of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. Dr. Jerry Youkey, Dean, and USC Associate Provost of Health Sciences and Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs kindly briefed me on the school’s... 25 July 2016
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... 25 July 2016
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... 20 July 2016
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... 19 July 2016
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... 18 July 2016
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... 15 July 2016
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... 13 July 2016
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... 12 July 2016
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... 6 July 2016
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... 5 July 2016
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... 27 June 2016
SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and training, and GE Healthcare expanded their collaboration to now cover ultrasound training and education for GE Women's Health and Urology Divisions. With this move, SonoSim® 365 for GE Healthcare will now be offered to Women's Health and Urology clients with qualifying ultrasound systems. 23 June 2016
Doctors often tell their patients how long they are likely to live and how well their body is responding to treatments. However, this can be one of the trickiest parts of their job. Now, a new statistical method tool promises to give accurate information on how long a cancer patient... 21 June 2016
Getting certified for simulation isn’t what you think. Simulation certification is still very new to Healthcare. As the simulation community has grown, defining the standards to ensure someone is qualified to perform a specific task has been at times, challenging. Since healthcare simulation centers can be found in pre-hospital... 20 June 2016
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- In any emergency situation, communication is key, along with staying calm and focused. That's why consistent practice and training is extremely important for medical personnel to make sure they can handle a multitude of emergencies in order to save lives. Dr. Jennifer Arnold is the medical director... 20 June 2016
The 194th Intelligence Squadron and the 194th Medical Group with the Washington Air National Guard conducted a mass casualty care exercise at American Lake at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on June 8, 2016 in support of Cascadia Rising, a test of Washington state's earthquake response plan. The exercise simulated the collapse... 20 June 2016
TRELLEBORG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Trelleborg has, through its business area Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, signed an agreement to acquire Specialty Silicone Fabricators Inc. (SSF), a U.S.-based privately-owned manufacturer of high-precision silicone components for medical technology original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The acquired company is a significant player in the important and high... 20 June 2016
Nursing Simulation Lab Coordinators can use electronic charting system simulations to let students view patient data and then chart the skills they performed. However, until recently, the changing information from the scenario itself had to be manually entered by an instructor, or entered in advance on the static chart. Now,... 17 June 2016
Could a virtual reality headset someday replace traditional cadaver labs for medical students? Probably not – but a new app for the Oculus Rift could certainly help. VR Human Anatomy, currently being tested by medical students at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, reportedly offers just that. Developed by a... 17 June 2016
Digital technology and innovation are helping healthcare organizations provide higher-level service for patients, with better diagnoses and care. This ongoing transformation of healthcare is also greatly shifting how doctors, nurses, patients and families are getting and communicating healthcare information. These are five of the biggest healthcare trends reverberating through the... 17 June 2016