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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
McGill University is partnering with CAE Healthcare, and DePuy Synthes Products, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, to develop a Virtual Reality (VR) platform to train orthopedic and neurosurgeons in advanced spinal surgery techniques. The new platform will leverage Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) technology and Finite Element... 12 June 2018
MedaPhor Group, an ultrasound software and simulation company, says that ScanTrainer, its OBGYN and General Medical simulator training platform has been installed at a new Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, United Kingdom. The London North West Healthcare NHS (National Health Service) Trust (LNWH) chose ScanTrainer for... 11 June 2018
General Electric's Healthcare business is introducing interactive and customizable training options for Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) professionals. With 25 percent of the HTM population expected to retire over the next 10 years, hospitals and healthcare systems face an increasing challenge to train the next generation. The options enabled by the... 7 June 2018
TraumaFX, a division of Kforce Government Solutions (KGS) and a provider of human and canine medical training simulators, released the canine medical simulator K9 Diesel. Named in memory of the heroic canine who died in the line of duty following the 2015 Paris terror attacks, K9 Diesel was developed jointly... 6 June 2018
3D Systems released the DMP Flex 100 and DMP Dental 100 for metal 3D printing and dental applications. Designed to be used for R&D (Research and Development), application development and production, the DMP Flex 100 provides up to twice the throughput compared to 3D Systems' previous entry-level metal 3D printer,... 6 June 2018
VSTEP is getting ready to release the NAUTIS Fishing module. 31 May 2018