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2014 IMSH The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare provided insights on the state-of-the-art in learning technologies for healthcare professionals. Editor in Chief Judith Riess and Group Editor Marty Kauchak attended the conference with Halldale Media Group Publisher and CEO Andy Smith and provide this report. A match-board exercise on... 26 February 2014
James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit... 26 February 2014
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides insights on the development of the BioGears™ open-source physiology engine. In January Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) announced they were awarded a multiyear, $7 million assistance agreement by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) in Fort Detrick, Maryland under Contract Number: W81XWH-13-2-0068. 24 February 2014
Suzanne M. Wright, PhD and Michael D. Fallacaro, DNS discuss their program to enhance patient safety – through crisis resource team training. Project Director Suzanne M. Wright, PhD, in the simulation control room. (Photo: Virginia Commonwealth University) Suzanne M. Wright, PhD and Michael D. Fallacaro, DNS describe one effort to... 24 February 2014
James B. McGee, MD provides insights on how the community is developing a new generation of educators skilled at using virtual patient simulation. Imagine that you are a medical student on your first day of your first clinical rotation. After an overloaded ten hours in the pediatric intensive care unit... 24 February 2014
Do we have a system of healthcare or do we have many systems with many players all trying to play the game, with few playing by the same set of rules? In fact, many players don’t understand that each of the disparate players in the game have a set of... 24 February 2014
KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, CENP educates and informs the community about the alliance. The purpose of the CSA is to become a cohesive voice for simulation in nursing education across the state, to disseminate information to stakeholders, and to establish a universal entity for simulation. 21 February 2014
Gary Hamill, EdD, describes recent research efforts to demonstrate the potential of physiologic self-regulation and imagery training strategies to increase psychomotor capacity and improve performance. Performing a medical procedure requires a tremendous amount of psychomotor capacity - your head, hands, and the team with whom you are working have to... 28 January 2014
Since its inception more than a century ago, modern medical education has undergone a series of quiet revolutions, stretching and scaling to accommodate advances in biomedical science. Yet this comprehensive expansion in one critical area masks a relative neglect of another. Despite their staggering scope – spanning genetics to geriatrics... 15 January 2014
Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD describes how simulation shows the most promise in improving our business as we move into the next zone of reality. In much of the present day model of health care our role as management has us looking to new ideas and processes in order to move... 14 January 2014
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon and the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeon (AAOS), Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, OTA are moving forward on simulation-based training. The first Orthopaedic Summit (MEdSim 4, 2013 Pedowitz) guaranteed a top down, bottom up approach to developing simulation based... 12 January 2014
Richard Boyd asserts that we are seeing the start of the Century of Simulation and Human Intelligence use If you could manage to ignore the purveyors of even higher definition (4K) displays at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you could see the pattern emerge above the noise. 10 January 2014
Fuad Moussa, MD, MSc, MMEd, FRCSC, FACS, FCCP discusses how he designed a curriculum to teach off-pump coronary bypass surgery to new surgeons. 30 December 2013
Researchers from the University of Malaya in Malaysia, with collaboration from researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, announce the creation of a cost-effective two-part model of the skull for use in practicing neurosurgical techniques. The model, produced using the latest generation... 10 December 2013
Bonnie Haupt, DNP (C), MSN, RN, CNL, CHSE defines disclosure of adverse events and efforts to incorporate best practice components of disclosure into community scenarios Case Study Mr. Sims is a 78 year old white male who presents to the Emergency Room with signs and symptoms of pneumonia. Sims’ wife... 20 November 2013
Carla Pugh, MD, addresses lingering questions regarding which type of simulation and assessment venue best meets specific learning objectives. Use of simulation-based assessments has continued to evolve. In the early iterations, mannequin-based trainers were used for classroom and group based training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for basic and advanced cardiac life... 20 November 2013
Robert A. Pedowitz, MD, PhD provides a summary of a strategic and coordinated approach to address simulation and other important concerns in the field of orthopaedic surgery. Simulation has been used for decades in the field of orthopedic surgery. Although simulation has been used widely in US residency training program,... 20 November 2013
Camran Nezhat, MD reports on his efforts to encourage simulation to become even more realistic, to influence surgical curriculum and to impact training protocols. We now know that the limiting factor for performing minimally invasive surgery is surgical skill and experience, as well as the availability of proper instrumentation. In... 6 November 2013
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides insights of his recent discussion with Inbal Mazor, Simbionix’s vice president of global marketing. This October MEdSim had an opportunity to speak with Simbionix’s Inbal Mazor in an ideal environment – away from the frenetic exhibition floor of a major community conference. In a brief,... 3 October 2013
Interview with Margareta Berg, MD, PhD, Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Chairman and Project Director of the Surgicon Foundation Dr. Berg peformed her residency, and was awarded her PhD degree in Orthopaedic Surgery, at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg Sweden. During this period she invented and organized “The Hip Replacement Project”. In 1989 she founded... 23 September 2013