On a mission to reinvent higher education for the rising generation and to reignite the joy of learning, VR technology company VxMED was developed by two entrepreneurs passionate about medicine and clinical simulation. They believed that being forced to rely on outdated learning methods to absorb mountains of information leaves many learners feeling overwhelmed and [...]
The history of clinical simulation is interesting — offering all the intrigue of a world at the intersection of learning theory, innovative technology, patient safety and care. Whereas the tour-de-force that led to the widespread use of healthcare simulation was based in the patient safety movement, one can look back further to see its earlier [...]
NTSB Finds ‘Blind Spot’ in SFO Radar After Near-Miss to Aviation’s Greatest Disaster Reports the Mercury News: “The wayward Air Canada plane that nearly caused an aviation disaster at San Francisco International Airport [on July 7th] dropped off radar displays for 12 seconds in the moments before it approached four fully loaded passenger jets on [...]
Gosanangelo.com recently reported how loud sirens and flashing lights filled the air in-between the runways at San Angelo Regional Airport recently, as part of an emergency preparedness exercise, which involved a simulated crash between commercial and military aircraft which included first-responders from the San Angelo Fire Department. The EMS group arrived at the scene [...]
