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Studica Limited Canada, a retailer for academic software and technology products, expansion of its learning solutions for secondary and post-secondary healthcare programs. The expansion features simulators and models for teaching key nursing skills, including catheterization, wound care and injection administration. The training tools are paired with curriculum that focuses on... 23 August 2018
When NYU announced it was offering full-tuition scholarships, it said it was part of an effort to build three-year medical school programs. The American Medical Association (AMA) says this effort is one element in the movement to modernize medical education, offering a challenge to the four-year model that has been... 22 August 2018
An analysis by Andy Smith, Medical Training Magazine publisher Every country in the world would seem to have its own ‘danger month;’ the month when newly minted residents arrive at hospitals, having passed medical school with a mostly outdated ‘assessment system,’ consisting of a written exam and possibly, several simulation... 21 August 2018
NYU School of Medicine is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit – to address the rising costs of medical education and still attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine. NYU has yearly tuition... 20 August 2018
Sponsored Content The British Army will host Medical Innovation 2018 at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham on 2-3 October. The conference, led by The U.K. Ministry of Defence’s will present the latest research on the patient and caregiver’s journey and innovation that seeks to improve the outcome for both. The conference will... 17 August 2018
FundamentalVR, providers of immersive training technology for the medical community, launched Fundamental Surgery in the United States, what the company says is a first-of-its-kind SaaS (software as a service) software platform that combines virtual reality (VR) with haptics (the sense of touch) to create a low-cost and scalable flight-simulator... 17 August 2018
New York Medical College (NYMC) in Vallhalla, New York and Rome Memorial Hospital (RMH) established an academic affiliation designating the hospital as a teaching site NYMC’s third- and fourth-year medical students. The agreement outlines a mutual commitment to promoting medical education programs, meeting the medical care needs of the community... 16 August 2018
Osso VR, a virtual reality (VR) surgical training technology company, launched its collaborative training feature that lets multiple surgeons train together in a single immersive VR space. The option to train collaboratively a moment’s notice offers improved learning opportunities for surgeons and surgical teams regardless of their physical locations,... 15 August 2018
The National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NM&SC), sponsored by the NTSA, will hold its 2018 National Meeting September 25-26 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, Nebraska. The meeting will focus on Improving Human Performance and Effectiveness and will feature presentations from... 14 August 2018
Jump Simulation, a part of OSF Innovation, will receive a $400,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to expand its STEAM (Science, Technology, Art, Engineering and Math) education program to students who are patients at OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois. PNC Bank also pledged $100,000 to sponsor the Angel Ball,... 14 August 2018
Four Purdue University biomedical engineering students developed an anatomically correct, hands-on breastfeeding simulator system to assist the training of perinatal nurses and professionals for their senior design project. The idea came from Tina Babbitt, an Indiana Perinatal Network nurse and lactation consultant, who brought the need for better breastfeeding training... 10 August 2018
Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Maverick Family Nursing Simulation Center received provisional accreditation by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). The provisional accreditation means that Minnesota State Mankato’s nursing simulation center is accredited for two years. At the end of that period, the University will apply for full accreditation status... 10 August 2018
CAE says it will invest C$1 billion over the next five years in innovation to stay at the forefront of the training industry. One of the main objectives of the investment is to fund Project Digital Intelligence, a digital transformation project to develop the next generation training solutions for aviation,... 9 August 2018
Tulane University School of Medicine says it is one of the first in the country to launch a new hybrid emergency medical technician training course that gives future paramedics flexible options to complete part of their coursework online. Most of the students taking the new class have jobs in emergency response... 9 August 2018
Vinformax, launched phase 2 of its S3D Medimagic product, what the company says is the first stereoscopic 3D digital medical education platform that enables VR-like tutoring and learning. Stereoscopy is a technique where two photographs of the same object taken at slightly different angles are viewed together, enhancing the... 7 August 2018
Avera Health established a scholarship fund for Native American Indians at The University of South Dakota (USD) Sanford School of Medicine that will provide educational opportunities for American Indian medical students. Recipients of these scholarships will be encouraged to provide care in under-served South Dakota areas. Bob Sutton, Avera Health President... 7 August 2018
South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, New York received approval for a new Internal Medicine Residency Program from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) that will allow for the training of 30 internal medicine physicians. The new residency program is a step in South Nassau’s transformation to a... 7 August 2018
Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) plans to open a new School of Medicine in Southern California that should help meet the demand for more primary care physicians in that area, according to the feasibility study by strategic consultant Tripp Umbach. The medical school plans to serve as a national model in preparing... 2 August 2018
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