When designing a Medical Simulation Space, the number of pitfalls to avoid is unbelievable. From doors being too small for beds to be installed to the wrong type of projector being installed in the lecture hall and from forgetting about HVAC for the server room to underestimating storage needs — each mistake is extremely costly [...]

For the training of NICU clinicians, LuSi is a baby simulator which responds to invasive and non-invasive respiratory therapy without need for operator input and thus creates a truly immersive simulation experience. Today Dr. Josef X. Brunner PhD, CEO at neosim AG shares about the new LuSi infant simulator, which was developed to train clinicians [...]

With patient safety a growing concern among health authorities worldwide, one way of reducing the ‘care risk’ is to train staff in the specific areas patients are at most risk. Increasingly, organizations are turning to debriefing video analysis as a way of improving assessment and reducing the danger to patients. This article looks at the [...]

Growing evidence shows a significant link between repetitive practice, content retention, and academic performance—which is why forward-thinking healthcare educators are looking for concrete ways to jumpstart learners’ comprehension, intuition, and long-term retention abilities. Designed to primarily educate and secondarily entertain, serious games and gamified learning environments place users in an environment where “play” leads to [...]