Medical Simulation can help your learners to address health disparities experienced by patients of a racial and ethnic minority. April is National Minority Health Month, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. In the United States, 36% of the population belongs to a racial or ethnic minority group. [...]

In this article, our colleagues at Laerdal Medical share how healthcare organizations are using medical simulation to build high performance teams. Organizations who are leaders in delivering safe, patient-centered care have something in common –they all emphasize the importance of creating great teams. In healthcare, these teams are comprised of thousands of doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, [...]

In the context of reducing patient harm to maternal and newborn patients, this article from Laerdal discusses the role of low-fidelity simulation in labor and delivery. When planning simulation for Labor and Delivery (LD), it would be easy to assume a need for a high fidelity, full-bodied birthing simulator. But, depending on the learning goals of [...]

Two global leaders in healthcare simulation, Laerdal Medical and B-Line Medical, announced today that they will integrate existing and new product lines to significantly improve healthcare simulation education. Representing different aspects of the medical simulation industry, Laerdal, a global leader in clinical simulation manikins, skills training, and education devices and B-Line Medical, which provides video-driven healthcare [...]