Level 3 Healthcare, and its parent company Level 3 Audio Visual, have been providing some really useful resources on their websites for healthcare simulation champions looking to learn how to better prepare for and execute the design and installation of A/V systems in medical simulation. Today, we provide a quick summary of some of their [...]

The 2019 National Forum on Simulation for Quality & Safety, organized in part by  takes place May 28th in Vancouver and focusses specifically on simulation in the care delivery setting to meaningfully improve quality and safety. As we know, Healthcare Simulation is revolutionizing approaches to patient safety and quality improvement in healthcare, with stronger connections [...]

In what may be an absolute first for the surgical simulation industry, Fundamental Surgery just demonstrated the ability to integrate its Surgical Haptic Intelligence Engine with the HaptX haptic glove, providing training surgeons the opportunity to feel their virtual reality environment! FundamentalVR, pioneers of immersive training technology for the medical simulation community, has become even [...]

Amy Lannen, Simulation Center Operations Specialist at the Medical Education Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville was recently featured in the video shared below where she spoke on the artistic work of creating more realistic patient presentations in medical simulation through the use of moulage. As we all know, moulage is the art of [...]

Prebriefing is an important component of healthcare simulation which should be planned along with the simulation scenario development and debriefing activities. Today, Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles Harbor College and Director of Nursing for El Camino College takes a look at pre briefing as well as provides a [...]