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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
The Penn College of Technology opened a new Nursing Education Center that has seven learning labs and 10 dedicated classrooms – and is serving more than 350 students enrolled in nursing majors at the school. The expanded nursing school facilities allowed the college to accept more students into its nursing... 18 May 2016
The 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES) at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois has a new Cargo Compartment Trainer (CCT) that gives AE crew members a realistic simulated clinical experience to develop their clinical abilities and their comfort level with operational missions in an environment that mimics an aircraft they... 16 May 2016
An app developed by a team of University of Tennessee instructors to teach student nurses in monitoring laboring mothers and their babies is so successful, it is now available on the iTunes App Store for iPads. The Simulated Electronic Fetal Monitor app teaches students how to interpret the data generated... 12 May 2016
Limbs & Things introduced a Cesarean Section (C-Section) Module for its PROMPT Flex Birthing Simulator. The new module has two elements. The first consists of an anatomically correct, replaceable surgical pad with eight layers, plus the female bladder. This part of the module aids highly realistic training in transverse incisions... 11 May 2016
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, is accepting applications for its ‘Innovation Showcases’ competition through May 27. The contest will give 20 healthcare innovators a chance to demonstrate their work in front of more than 1,000... 10 May 2016
A team of patient safety experts at Johns Hopkins say more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S., according to the results of their study published in the BMJ on May 3. The team says after analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year... 4 May 2016
Boston Children’s Hospital opened a 4,000-square-foot, $12 million expanded pediatric Simulation (SIM) Center where doctors, nurses and other staff can rehearse tough medical situations or practice tricky or rare procedures in a clinical setting that looks and feels real. Families will also use the facility that incorporates real medical equipment,... 4 May 2016