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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
Editor in Chief Judith Riess suggests the successful implementation of new, safe, work practices must be initiated by those who work within the healthcare sector. All aspects of healthcare are changing. Patient safety is a global priority and when we hear that the mortality rate due to error equates... 3 September 2013
In the fourth in a series of articles on medical simulation centers, Group Editor Marty Kauchak examines community stakeholders’ expanding interest in returns on investment for these facilities. During one random four week period this spring, the Halldale Group’s website reported the opening or upgrade of four healthcare simulation facilities in... 15 August 2013
Interview with Richard M. Satava, MD FACS, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Dr. Satava has held numerous leadership and management positions in the medical community. Prior assignments and positions include Professor of Surgery at Yale University and a military appointment Professor... 13 August 2013
Rahul Panesar, MD, and Sean Cavanaugh, BS and Christopher Gallagher, MD describe their efforts to build an inexpensive, wireless partial seizure mechanism for pediatric status epilepticus simulation scenarios. The most common neurologic disorder in children is seizures, with up to 6% of all children having at least one episode by... 31 July 2013
MEdSim continued its presence at international conferences through July. Publisher & CEO Andy Smith, Editor Judith Riess, US Sales Representative Justin Grooms and Group Editor Marty Kauchak provide recurring themes from select conferences’ keynote addresses, breakout sessions and the exhibition floors. NPSF Congress. Image Credit: David Aleman, f-stop Photography Our... 30 July 2013
In this second of two invited articles, John J. Schaefer, III, MD describes the operational and educational approach of HealthCare Simulation of South Carolina. Introduction: This is the second of an invited two-part series about the simulation collaborative that has developed in South Carolina. In 2006 South Carolina’s three state... 30 July 2013
Jennifer Calzada, MA, provides insights on medical simulation center management from a corporate sales support perspective. Your institution has spent a year and millions of dollars planning and building a state-of-the-art medical simulation center. But just because you build it, doesn’t necessarily mean people will come. How do you ensure... 25 July 2013