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On July 17th the United States Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging met to discuss the leading causes of death in the US. The first two, heart disease, 597,000 and cancer, 574,000 came as no surprise. However, the third leading cause, preventable medical errors in hospitals, 440,000 a year... 24 July 2014
Amar Patel, Wake Med Director of the Center for Innovative Learning describes how to develop a business plan and show ROI for your center. Students perform on a manikin as part of simulation technology classes. Most all of us have taken medical simulation classes to improve our caregiving skills using... 24 July 2014
Marty Kauchak and James Cypert talk about the importance of standardization in simulation technologies and the training of technicians. SimGHOSTS lead hands-on simulation training event. Mr. Cypert is the technical director for the School of Nursing at California Baptist University. Until February 2014 he was the president of SimGHOSTS, a... 24 July 2014
Dr. Dan Katz and Dr. Eric Savitsky describe how they created a cloud based training solution for ultra sound training. This is a three-part series that uses a case study to describe the introduction of disruptive innovation into medical education and training. The first installment describes identifying an unmet need... 24 July 2014
Beth Thomas, MD and Gabriel Reedy, PhD describe one of their simulation programs that involves potential learners and helps establish positive partnerships in the community. Medical simulation is not just for the clinical learner; rather, it can have far reaching impact and can contribute meaningfully to the community. The value of... 24 July 2014
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responders felt better prepared to respond to an active shooter incident after receiving focused tactical training according to a new study in the journal Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 14 July 2014
By Columbia University Medical Center In medicine, as in other fields where a beginner’s mistake can be fatal, simulation-based training bridges the gap between learning and doing. At Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S), medical students practice everything from taking a patient’s medical history - with actors playing the... 26 June 2014
Dr. Howard Champion and Dr. Jan Cannon Bowers look at issues to be addressed to make simulation an integral part of experiential medical training. 27 May 2014
Staff writer Lesya Hoover reports on the International Collaboration Taking Place to Open Simulation Centers in the Ukraine Lesya Hoover interviews Ukrainian-Swiss Mother and Child Health Programme representatives, Natalia Riabtseva and Grigory Naumovets. On May 30, 2013, the first Ukrainian medical simulation center was officially opened in the Crimean Perinatal... 23 May 2014
Jim Carlson, PhD, discusses a program his school uses to enhance clinical reasoning competency. Jim Carlson, PhD, PA-C, describes Rosalind Franklin’s use of a web-based virtual patient simulator to enhance case-based learning in teaching clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning is complex, requiring significant time and experience to master. Traditionally, this competency... 23 May 2014
Editor in Chief Judith Reiss reports from the Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) event which took place at the end of April. HPSN 2014 was held in Sarasota, Florida, which gave the participants of the conference the opportunity to visit the simulator plant and meet the employees where the mannequins... 22 May 2014
Staff writer Lori Ponoroff addresses the worldwide nursing shortage by highlighting strategies being used by associations, universities and governments to combat the problem in the first in a series of nursing articles. Lori Ponoroff discusses one strategy being used to eliminate the worldwide nursing shortage. They’ll need a million in... 22 May 2014
Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie share the simulation model they used in the redesign of an Emergency Department. Allen J. Giannakopoulos, PhD and Matthew Kadrie built a model of an Emergency Department that clearly defined and thoroughly tested each process. Hospital Emergency Departments are constantly faced with possible... 22 May 2014
Having attended the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) annual meeting this month as well as HPSN and AUA and having listened to many excellent speakers and dedicated professionals discuss what is happening in medicine as well as daily readings of journals , blogs and other media sources it is evident... 21 May 2014
MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention. 30 April 2014
It's Thursday morning in early May in the Emergency Department at WakeMed Raleigh Campus, An experienced pediatric trauma physician is trying to help a young boy who appears to be experiencing serious respiratory distress and is not responding to medication. Looking on anxiously, the frantic mother is bombarding the doctor... 19 March 2014
MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention. Hospital organization. Competency based training and practice. Breaking down silos. Valid assessment tools... 27 February 2014
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