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The Orlando-based command’s Project Manager (PM) Combined Arms Tactical Trainers (CATT) with Assistant Project Manager (APM) of Medical Simulation (MEDSIM) is working “To put the power of simulations into the hands of our Warfighters.” Soldiers carry a simulated battlefield casualty during a training exercise at the Fort Lewis Medical Simulation... 18 April 2012
Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, UK, describes and discusses how healthcare professionals utilize simulation for practice an assessment of technical skills and procedures to enhance competency, improve transfer of knowledge, surgical performance and patient safety. 18 April 2012
Don Combs, Ph.D., Vice President and Dean of the School of Health Profession at Eastern Virginia Medical School, provides a groundbreaking examination of return on investment for expenditures in medical simulation. East Virginia medical student reviews patient history in simulation center. (Photo: Author) The emerging discipline of Modeling and Simulation... 18 April 2012
Daniel M. Clinchot, M.D. explains the steps taken and the guiding principles used to revise the Ohio State University Medical Undergraduate Curriculum, Lead. Serve. Inspire and why it will produce a better equipped more effective physician. Undergraduate medical education is undergoing a period of fervent curriculum renewal. Many forces such... 18 April 2012
Dr. Shad Deering and Dr Taylor Sawyer explain the Central Simulation Committees’ goals, foundation, program components and collaborative efforts to enhance training and simulation in the US military healthcare system. Residents at Medigan engaged in Mobile Emergency Simulation (MOES) exercise developed by Shad Deering, MD, USA. (Photo: Dr. Shad Deering)... 29 March 2012
When the Sidra Medical and Research Center’s Clinical Simulation Center opens in 2013, it will provide cutting edge training to its Doha, Qatar-based learning audience, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. When Sidra Medical and Research Center opens its doors in the first half of 2013, it will transform the healthcare... 11 February 2012
In 1980 I attended an airline training symposium at which it was stated that if the current rate of accidents per thousand take offs was extrapolated in line with expected growth over the next twenty years, with no improvements to safety, the global industry could expect an accident a week... 12 January 2012
Medical simulation centers are emerging around the world to advance medical education to the next level by developing curricula that employs the technology to improve skills and assess performance. The centers are also conducting research that provides evidence to simulation's effectiveness as a learning tool, reports Chuck Weirauch. Private... 6 January 2012
Dimitrios Stefanidis, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, FASMBS, examines issues supporting the use of simulators in medical training. The present paradigm shift from resident training using the Halstedian model, “see one, do one, teach one,” to training using surgical simulators results from concerns for patient safety, limited resident work hours, pressures on... 6 January 2012
Yuri Millo, M.D. and Pamela Leonard describe the advancements in their latest simulation center to better meet learner needs. This past June (2011), we at Simulation and Training Environment Lab (SiTEL) of Medstar Health opened our newest Clinical Simulation Center, CSC DC, located at 4000 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 5 January 2012
Publisher Andy Smith shares his insights after attending the September 2011 conference on surgical training. Although this event took place in early September 2011 its topic, content and the international audience from 31 countries that it attracted, make it an event that should be of interest to the surgical training... 5 January 2012
There is a constant and growing need for education in new medical procedures and the use of new devices. This is especially true for surgeons who are constantly being equipped with better methods and tools for dealing with the challenging job of repairing the inside and outside of the human... 5 January 2012
As the nursing community increases its use of learning technology in education programs, community leadership is also concerned about faculty development, returns on investment and other issues in the life cycle of a training system, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. A confluence of events is creating a demand to... 5 January 2012
Interview with Dr. Monica Reed, CEO Florida Hospital Celebration Health at World Robotics Conference in Miami, Fl by Judith Riess, Editor, MEdSIM MEdSim: Please give me some background on the Florida Hospital System Dr. Reed: The Florida Hospital system is made up of 8 different hospital campuses in Central Florida... 5 January 2012
Chief of Medical ModernizationAir Education Training Command Colonel Storms was interviewed by Group Editor Marty Kauchak. The interview addressed a wide range of simulation and training topics pertaining to the U.S. Air Force. Interview MedSIM: Colonel, good afternoon and thanks for taking time to speak with MEdSIM. Let’s first discuss... 5 January 2012