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Waldwick — For argument’s sake, let’s say that multi-colored balloons are patient heads. And that plum tomatoes Scotch-taped on the balloons are their eyes. Now, let’s imagine 10 teams of students from all over the state trying their very best to construct hydraulic arms capable of performing cataract surgery on... 9 June 2016
Most people wouldn’t volunteer to be placed in dangerous situations, but for Jenna Fremstad it brings about a sense of comfort. A hall director at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), she volunteered to be a hostage in the two-day UWSP emergency training exercise involving 27 agencies at the campus... 9 June 2016
When a catastrophe strikes, like the massive Keyport fire in April, first aid squads from several towns respond. It helps if those squads have strong preexisting relationships. That’s the idea behind the Bayshore EMS Cadet Competition, which takes place Saturday in Keyport. Cadets -- young people ages 14-18 who are interested in... 9 June 2016
QUEPOS, Costa Rica - Twenty-two Costa Rican Guarda Costas attended a recent two-day workshop conducted by Sgt. 1st. Class David Muniz and Sgt. Michael Marfia, medics from New Mexico National Guard, as part of the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program. The Subject Matter Expert Exchange, or SMEE, aims to... 8 June 2016
Simulation has revolutionized product design and manufacturing across many industries including automotive, aerospace, and oil and gas exploration. The ability to develop new products and test different processes in a virtual environment allows us to first explore what could be without wasting precious investments of time and money on ideas... 8 June 2016
A CIO article, “Artificial Intelligence: Humankind’s Best Chance for a Healthier Future,” makes a really good point about the past and future of medicine. Many of the greatest advances in medicine depended upon observation and almost accidental discoveries. Really smart people had to be in the right place at the... 7 June 2016
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... 7 June 2016
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... 6 June 2016
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... 6 June 2016
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Call them the Brain Generation -- the tens of thousands of college and graduate students working toward degrees in neuroscience, and the high school students who want to join them someday. They’ve grown up in a time when exciting new discoveries about the brain come out... 6 June 2016
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... 3 June 2016
The "transformative" virtual reality treatment involves placing patients in uncomfortable virtual simulations such as riding the London Underground. The mental health clinics of the future could soon sport virtual treatment rooms, as a new study shows how VR can treat severe paranoia for the first time. The Medical Research Council-backed... 3 June 2016
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... 3 June 2016
FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash., May 31, 2016 – Beginning June 1, PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center will host two residents from the UW Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine for a four-week rural medicine rotation. Residents Max Wendtlandt, MD, and Paul Doetsch, MD, will work under the supervision of PeaceHealth Peace Island... 2 June 2016
Boston MedFlight knows a thing or two about cooperation. In fact, it was founded on it. More than 30 years ago, six competing hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts, came together to create a single helicopter air ambulance service for the local area. The service was set up as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit... 2 June 2016
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... 2 June 2016
A Florida company that makes synthetic humans for medical training has branched out to synthetic dogs — and it says it’s hoping to place packs of them in every veterinary school in the world. If successful, SynDaver Labs says, the mission would save thousands of animals by preventing shelter dogs... 2 June 2016
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... 1 June 2016
Picture this: At every step of a patient’s trip through the hospital, a virtual assistant awaits, ready to answer questions, pull up medical records — or snap photos during surgery. Hospital staff and patients walked through that futuristic hospital scenario one recent afternoon at a new simulation center at Boston... 1 June 2016
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... 31 May 2016