Emotional intelligence is typically developed over time with extensive introspection, so consider these 7 tips to get started and demonstrate emotional intelligence via medical simulation on day one. Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been a buzzword and hot topic in leadership and management for several years now. There are books and blogs, seminars and workshops; and [...]

Scouring the web for the best medical simulation content we have come across numerous articles in the past month which focus on Virtual Reality (VR) technologies in Medicine and Healthcare that we are sharing here today. VR is a crucial technology for medical simulation in that it will help to bridge the gap between classroom [...]

UPMC’s Medical Director of Patient Safety and Director of the WISER Simulation Center, Dr. Paul E. Phrampus MD, recently shared his AHRQ article “Building a Safety Program in a Vast Health Care Network”, which highlights the unique needs of patient safety, workforce training, and medical simulation utilization when considering vast institutional healthcare networks. Below we [...]

When we close our eyes and imagine the future of medical simulation technologies, we see 3D animated experiences so realistic we can’t even tell virtual patients aren’t real, haptic devices which make us believe we are touching medical equipment, and communication so authentic we would never be able to tell it was a computer mainframe [...]