Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) develops true to life virtual reality healthcare simulation scenarios, with full feedback and debrief capabilities, to allow VR to do the work, so sim labs can be more efficient and effective in their educational and training process. OMS has designed their VR simulation system to be seamlessly embedded into any university [...]
*Update: The Early-Bird discount for SG19USA has been extended until this Friday June 21st**. This is now the absolute last day to receive early-bird discounts to attend SimGHOSTS 2019 USA at Florida International University in Miami from July 30th – August 2nd, the world’s only organization and event dedicated to professionals who operate Healthcare Simulation [...]
On Saturday 28th November 1942, when the Second World War was raging across much of Europe, North Africa, Asia and Russia, a nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts changed medicine and emergency simulation forever. Today, Associate Professor Natasha Taylor Ed D, MSc, MEd, M Ed, BSc (Hons), PGCE, from Coventry University shares with us about this [...]
Last week, the Clinical Simulation Program of UW Health and UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health celebrated a successful year of bringing “Innovation Beyond Borders” to the multiple UW campuses. Let’s take a closer look at the Clinical Simulation Program team and their achievements this year, who are driven by a vision to [...]
The National Health Education and Training in Simulation Program, aka NHET-Sim, is Australia’s nationwide training program for healthcare professionals and their educators aimed at improving clinical training capacity. NHET-Sim is designed for anyone who currently or intends to use simulation as an educational method to support the development of healthcare students and professionals. The program [...]
In 2013, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center started developing a new approach to CPR—Coaching, Objective‐Data Evaluation, Action‐linked phrases, Choreography, Ergonomics, Structured debriefing, and Simulation (CODE ACES²). The children’s hospital recently published research on the approach, which increased achievement of excellent CPR based on American Heart Association guidelines from 19.9% of resuscitation events to 44.3%! Let’s take [...]
