The need to rapidly adapt traditional healthcare simulation-based training curricula into distance learning modalities through virtual simulation technology has never been greater. Mandated shutdowns and campus closures driven by COVID-19 have left higher education institutions struggling to pivot their clinical simulation programs between in-person and remote-learning environments. For these medical simulation education programs, this means [...]

Ectopic pregnancies are rarely encountered during medical training; however, they still occur at a rate of around 100,000 per year across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To help spread awareness about this condition and help educate learners on how to prepare and care for an ectopic pregnancy patient, [...]

To correctly prepare learners for the physical, emotional, psychological and ethical challenges they may encounter in the field, some healthcare simulation educators have begun to implement virtual standardized patient solutions. Helping to provide these solutions, the technology company Avkin has developed virtual standardized patients that include real humans. This realistic environment brings together the best [...]

While healthcare simulation educators have been challenged to find new, innovative ways to reach learners during the coronavirus pandemic, they have also struggled to ensure these methods are as realistic as possible. This includes ensuring that patient diversity exists across healthcare simulators, medical simulation modules and other means of virtual learning. With this mind, MedVision [...]