What are some of the key factors when selecting modalities in clinical simulation? Based on an Avkin 2023-2024 international survey, each simulation modality currently available in the market has benefits and drawbacks. Avkin is dedicated to meeting the healthcare simulation needs and scans the healthcare simulation community for gaps that need to be addressed to [...]
Improving patient safety should be a priority for healthcare providers, healthcare institutions, academic institutions training healthcare providers, and the public. On March 8, 2024, U.S. Reps. Nanette Barragán and Dr. Michael Burgess, members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, reintroduced the National Patient Safety Board Act (H.R. 7591). H.R. 7591 supports legislation that [...]
Nursing Simulation Clinical Educators looking for a customizable tool to create meaningful virtual reality simulations for nursing students will appreciate learning more about the UbiSim platform’s Intuitive Editor. Imagine finding a scenario that almost meets educational needs, but requires an adjustment for the patient, the equipment needed, or the medications taken. The clinical simulation scenario [...]
The International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association (IVRHA) in partnership with Moffitt Cancer Center and Ringling College of Art + Design for the 8th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium. This interdisciplinary event occurred February 29 – March 3, 2024, in Sarasota and Tampa, Florida. This HealthySimulation.com article by Content Manager Dr. Teresa Gore, reviewed [...]
Healthcare Simulation allows adult clinical learners to gain knowledge and train skills by doing, which is especially true for Gen Z learners. First aid education is a topic where remembering key procedures, skills, questions, timing, steps and mnemonics may literally mean the difference between life and death. Failure to be able to call upon learned [...]
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has developed valuable resources and programs for healthcare simulation professionals. Expert clinicians and simulation faculty of Feinberg School of Medicine simulation program have published Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Mastery Learning in Health Professions Education. This book presents the parameters of Mastery Learning (ML), an especially stringent variety of competency-based education [...]
