Medical simulation best-practices from 8 years of the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Accredited Education Institutes (AEI) are now available for the global clinical simulation community thanks to the new Elsevier published article “Overarching themes from ACS-AEI accreditation survey best practices 2011–2019” (Cooke et al.). Here today, Dr. James Cooke, MD, Executive Director of the [...]

The International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Research, Innovation and Education (INSPIRE) is a collaborative group of healthcare professionals whose goal is to improve the lives of children through healthcare simulation. Together, medical simulation experts, clinicians, educators, investigators, statisticians, human factors researchers and psychologists work to serve as a global community that catalyzes discoveries and promotes [...]

Responding to COVID-19, a team of Healthcare Simulation Champions from around the world have crafted a manifesto for action, incorporating a more comprehensive understanding of healthcare simulation, beyond tool, technique or experience, to understanding it now as a professional practice. Acknowledging that the global crisis has been “disruptive, even a threat, to healthcare simulation, affecting [...]

Dr. Justin Sutherland PhD, co-founder / CEO at Realize Medical and clinical medical physicist at the Ottawa Hospital, has contributed today’s article demonstrating one powerful new learning tool now available within healthcare simulation. He shares how several simulation centers are already using Realize Medical’s Elucis platform to create and interact with medical models directly in [...]