The Simulation Educator Needs Assessment Tool (SENAT) was developed by Britt, Xing, and Leighton (2023) based on a needs assessment and gap analysis for healthcare simulation professional development, the need to provide data regarding the simulation professional needs and desire for improvement, and to assist the creation of a professional development roadmap for clinical simulation [...]
PCS (Patient Communication Simulators) is a simulation technology and software engineering company that has been operating since 2015, specializing solely in healthcare simulation products driven by artificial intelligence (AI). PCS launched their 4th AI-driven product, SimVox in October of 2023. SimVox, the new AI speaker instantly and affordably adds innovative patient communication training technologies to [...]
Laerdal released MamaAnne, a maternal healthcare simulator, in 2024 to provide high-quality healthcare training to address the increasing maternal mortality rates. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), maternal deaths occur nearly every two minutes, which results in over a quarter million mothers dying a year. Maternal mortality rates are on the rise, especially in [...]
New forms of clinical simulation products are constantly released. As clinical simulation educators, the concept of a new or novel clinical simulation modality introduction is quite a common occurrence. This is a skill set that is required to ensure that new clinical simulation modalities are released in a safe and successful manner. With an experienced [...]
from 30th May to 1st of June 2024, Buenos Aires Argentina is set to become hosts of the International Congress on Health Simulation and the II International Symposium on Operations in Health Simulation. With the motto ‘Teamwork towards a better health system’ the congress invites clinical simulationists to participate in the International Congress in the [...]
Gaumard’s UNI 3, the Unified Simulator Control Software by Gaumard Scientific is described as a powerful and intuitive patient simulator control software used to drive multiple manikins with impressive software features integrated. UNI 3 is Gaumard’s most new and advanced manikin control software which just recently launched into the global healthcare simulation market place. The [...]
