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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
MedaPhor, an intelligent ultrasound software and simulation company, installed its first BodyWorks Eve, Point of Care ultrasound (PoCUS) simulator, at NYU School of Medicine’s simulation laboratory of the affiliated Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System New York Campus. BodyWorks Eve is a female manikin simulator designed for doctors to... 30 May 2018
A growing partnership between the U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System and permanent civilian trauma institutions is under way creating, for the first time, a fully integrated military-civilian trauma system with the ability to train military surgeons prior to deployment, retain the critical skills of military surgeons while they’re... 23 May 2018
A team led by Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand designed the Hartwell Simulator, a low-cost simulator that plugs into everyday medical equipment. Anaesthetic specialist Dr. Daniel Hartwell led the team that developed a system that uses the same equipment clinical staff use every day. Biomedical Engineer Michael Sheedy from the... 21 May 2018
The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) received a $3 million equipment grant from the Olympus Corporation's Grants Committee that includes the latest ultrasound processors and radial probe driving units. The equipment supports expanded hands-on learning experiences at CHEST's Innovation, Simulation, and Training Center in Glenview, Illinois. CHEST will use... 21 May 2018
Cardionics introduced the Cardionics SimSuit, a garment worn by a Standardized Patient (SP) that simulates physiological conditions to test a student or an examiner's diagnostic and procedural skills, and developed in conjunction with Mayo Clinic. The SimSuit is the second generation of the Cardionics SimShirt the company released last year,... 18 May 2018
With increasing air travel, in-flight medical emergencies are on the rise and physicians on commercial airline flights are routinely asked to volunteer assistance. Yet most health care professionals lack sufficient knowledge about in-flight emergency stabilization, resources available and protocols. A study by Jump Simulation, part of OSF Innovation and a... 16 May 2018