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Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR respectively) are long lost brothers; both of them only started developing properly in recent years but until now VR has always been the big brother that has firmly stolen the attention of the mass market. However, AR is coming into its own and... 28 April 2017
With two or three ambulances covering all of Lafayette County, there are often times when there’s more need for medical assistance than there are ambulances available. Oxford’s population almost doubles on home football game weekends. Other popular sporting events at FNC or the John Leslie Tennis Courts also often bring... 27 April 2017
A nursing program at Bismarck State College is running simulations in Spanish to increase cultural competency of nursing students. Language barriers are often challenging in health care, particularly for nurses who don't speak a patient's language. The Dakota Nursing Program at BSC collaborated with a Spanish professor and his class to... 27 April 2017
An unlikely pairing between construction machine manufacturing Caterpillar (CAT) and OSF Healthcare in Illinois is helping doctors perform complex heart surgeries by modeling a patient’s heart using 3D printing. Physicians from OSF Healthcare sought help from Caterpillar after a chance encounter between Matthew Bramlet, a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Hospital of Illinois, and a... 26 April 2017
By Chris Baraniuk As my syringe presses against the skin and muscle surrounding a patient’s knee joint, I feel a brief resistance. A gentle increase in pressure, though, and the needle pops through, ready to inject the drug. But this isn’t a real patient or syringe – they’re both virtual. 25 April 2017
Elsevier, an information analytics company specializing in science and health, along with the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), are hosting a 48-hour Medical Education Hackathon on August 25, ahead of AMEE's annual conference in Helsinki, Finland. Building on the success of the 2015 hackathon, the event will bring... 24 April 2017
NuVasive, a medical device company that focuses on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, launched its RELINE® Trauma portfolio, a new trauma system that supports surgeons in the increasing transition from open to MAS spine procedures. The company says RELINE Trauma is the first system to give... 24 April 2017
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Regenstrief Institute launched a new tool to help make sure medical students and trainees get real-world experience using electronic health records (EHR) during their training. Because the majority of today’s physicians graduate from medical school without comprehensive HER training, the Indiana University School... 21 April 2017
Last October, the Medical University of South Carolina began its 13th year of the Senior Mentor Program, in which the 180 members of the College of Medicine Class of 2020 were introduced to their 90 Senior Mentors. Dr. Heather Boger, PhD who is the director of the College of Medicine... 20 April 2017
Stanford Medicine X | ED, an academic conference on the future of medical education, will be held April 22-23 at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In its inaugural year as a stand-alone conference, the event will focus on how to... 20 April 2017
The Montana Family Medicine Residency program is unique. Started in 1995 and designed to train and place more family medicine practitioners across the state, the residency program is sponsored by RiverStone Health, St. Vincent Healthcare and Billings Clinic and housed at RiverStone. "It's unique that it's housed in a... 20 April 2017
She was just 15 when it happened. She started having trouble breathing when she ran cross-country, and she felt intense itching on her body, especially her lower limbs. She would stay up all night because of it, but she wasn't really worried, just annoyed. After visits to different skin doctors, an... 19 April 2017
Surrounded by silicone livers, a 3D-printed rib cage, and a prosthetic arm covered in third-degree burns lies Frank, a prototype of the world’s most advanced manikin for medical simulations. Fresh off a nationwide tour to train combat medics how to respond to roadside bombs, his right leg is a mangled mess of... 19 April 2017
Diana Huang entered medical school ready to work hard to realize her ambition of becoming a primary care doctor. What she wasn’t prepared for was the tepid support she has gotten from some classmates and faculty regarding her chosen specialty. “I definitely got messages along the way where I could... 19 April 2017
It looks and feels like a real person. It can cough, has a gag reflex and will even cry “ouch!” if handled roughly. Meet mikoto, a next-generation medical simulation robot developed for students, young doctors and emergency care workers so they can get hands-on training without the risk of harming... 18 April 2017
SAN BERNARDINO San Bernardino County Supervisors on Tuesday approved, without discussion, a $10 million, five-year agreement to support the effort for a new medical school in Colton. The California University of Science and Medicine’s School of Medicine is expected to open in summer 2018 inside temporary headquarters in San Bernardino... 18 April 2017
El Paso Community College (EPCC) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Paramedic students have a new tool for “real-life” training. As part of a $123,000 grant from the Texas Association of Community Colleges– Texas Success Center, EPCC has installed a $40,000 state-of- the-art Ambulance Simulator in its classrooms at the Mission... 14 April 2017
In the first six months of 2016, Pennsylvania hospitals reported 889 medication errors or close calls that were attributed, at least in part, to electronic health records and other technology used to monitor and record patients’ treatment. A majority of the errors pertained to dosages — either missed dosages or... 14 April 2017
UC San Francisco is part of a patient safety research group that received the prestigious 2016 John M. Eisenberg Award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality. The award is presented annually by The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, two leading organizations that set standards in patient care. 14 April 2017
The Dell Medical School partnered with the Blanton Museum of Art to teach medical students empathy through art. Faculty members at Dell Medical collaborated with Ray Williams, the Blanton’s director of education and academic affairs, to create three two-hour experiences to teach medical students empathy, observational skills and self-care. During... 13 April 2017