Although there has typically been little guidance published regarding the use of remote video technology with human Standardized Patients (SP) in live encounters, the COVID-19 global pandemic provided an opportunity to explore potential benefits and challenges of this methodology. Standardized patients have been used extensively in health professions training, both for learners and in continuing [...]

Back in late 2019, Epic Games (makers of Fortnite) announced that they had given a MegaGrant to Virteasy Dental to bring the power of the Unreal Engine to dental simulation to benefit universities across the world. The thinking was that this would improve the clinical simulation software on the Virteasy dental simulator. The company has [...]

Clinical simulation is one way that healthcare educators can go beyond assuming that their learners understand their training — rather, both the educator and learner should be confident in their skills. To help instill this confidence, CAE Healthcare’s LearningSpace is a video-driven clinical education management solution designed to improve clinical performance with an audiovisual component. [...]

When companies market healthcare simulators, they use descriptors like “high fidelity” and “advanced,” but there’s only one company that can confidently call their manikin “smart.” The next generation of simulators that has, over the last four years, been quietly and steadily gaining momentum and widespread use. From high school health programs to medical and nursing [...]