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A new paper out of Rice University in Houston, Texas says, when implemented correctly, health care team training can reduce patient mortality by 13 percent. "Transforming Health Care One Team at a Time: Ten Observations and the Trail Ahead" outlines existing evidence and theory on the science behind developing health... 2 August 2018
The University of Houston College of Medicine’s inaugural class of 30 students will not have to pay for their medical education, thanks to an anonymous $3 million gift to the school to fully fund the first class’ tuition when the school opens in 2020. The College of Medicine hopes at least... 2 August 2018
CAE Healthcare released CAE Ares, an emergency care manikin to meet the life support training requirements of emergency care providers worldwide. CAE Ares made its first appearances on three continents in June, at the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) conference in Toronto, Canada; at the Human... 25 July 2018
Medical professionals from National Defense Medical College, Japan, visited Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) for a tour of its medical spaces during a subject matter expert exchange with NMCSD staff. The National Defense Medical College (NDMC) is Japan’s six-year university-level military academy that trains current military doctors to become military... 24 July 2018
While 30 states now allow the use of medical marijuana healthcare providers, researchers and industry professionals have few credible, evidence-based educational options to learn about the health benefits and risks of cannabis in appropriate clinical settings to treat chronic pain and other conditions such as multiple sclerosis spasticity or epileptic... 23 July 2018
The Mayo Clinic J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville, Florida campus earned accreditation in the area of teaching and education by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) in Washington, D.C. The center is one of only 100 in the world to be recognized... 19 July 2018
The Johnson & Johnson Institute, a provider of professional education, launched a new global virtual reality (VR) training program for surgeons and nurses at several of its global locations. The program includes three VR training modules for orthopaedic surgery - Total Knee Replacement with Direct Anterior Approach and Hip Fracture... 18 July 2018
The University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in Tampa, Florida hired Yasuharu (Haru) Okuda, MD, FACEP, FSSH, as executive director. Dr. Okuda was also named the first executive director of USF Health’s Interprofessional Education Simulation (IPE) Programming and appointed a USF Health faculty Professor... 17 July 2018
As we see improvements in technology performance and assessment there is also the opportunity to significantly reduce cost of medical education and training. Paul Pribaz reports. Natalia Grudzien, a second-year medical student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP), lifts two controllers up to her... 16 July 2018
Surgical training company National Bioskills Laboratories (NBL) opened a third location this month in San Francisco, establishing a west coast facility as it builds a national network of full-service bioskills training facilities that provide medical device companies and physicians with full-service planning and execution for hands-on training events. This new... 13 July 2018
The Boise State College of Nursing’s Simulation Team won the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) 2018 Frontline Simulation Champions Excellence Award for providing exceptional simulation education for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as education and consultation for faculty throughout the nation. The award acknowledges a... 12 July 2018
Sidra Medicine signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qatar University Health (QU Health) – Doha, Qatar, to offer clinical training and rotation programs for students from QU’s Colleges of Health Sciences, Medicine and Pharmacy. The agreement is an extension of the MoU that was signed to support the education... 11 July 2018
The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), in partnership with Hawaii’s major teaching hospitals, is addressing the state’s worsening physician shortage by placing 240 doctors to work every year as trainees in its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program. As many as 80 percent of the doctors... 10 July 2018
Toyoda Gosei and EBM Corporation in Japan developed a prototype “Super BEAT” surgical training simulator that can reproduce a heart beating with extreme accuracy – it’s an artificial muscle that uses e-rubber, a next-generation rubber that functions with electricity and mechanical force. EBM is a Waseda University-launched startup (established in... 6 July 2018
Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s first class of students began classes July 2 at what the school says is the first engineering-based medical school. The school is a partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Carle Health System. It’s goal is to create a cohort of physician-innovators... 4 July 2018
Environmental Tectonics Corporation's (ETC) Simulation business unit won a contract to deliver an Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS(TM)) system to Northern College of Applied Arts & Technology’s Emergency Services Complex in Ontario, Canada. The ADMS-COMMAND virtual reality training system will be incorporated into the Health Sciences and Emergency Services programs... 29 June 2018
Suicide rates in the United States are up nearly 30 percent since 1999, according to data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To help address this growing epidemic, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy aimed at increasing awareness about the risks for suicide... 21 June 2018
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson sponsored a Stop the Bleed® training session for Congressional staff this week where surgeon members of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) instructed more than 75 people on how to stop potentially life-threatening bleeding in an injured person, as part of the Stop the Bleed national... 20 June 2018
Medical Training Magazine focuses on best practices in medical training, so we encourage you to join the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) in celebrating HRM Week, this week: June 18-22, 2018. Remember, your biggest risk is a poorly trained staff and you can find ways to update your training... 19 June 2018
Beyeonics Surgical, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems that develops Beyeonics develops surgical training visualization technologies, raised $11.5 million expand its product development to include additional surgical applications and accelerate commercialization that improves a surgeon's efficiency and enhances patient safety and surgical outcomes. Beyeonics' first clinically tested system - Clarity™ Bionic... 15 June 2018