Elsevier is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health. Elsevier partners with educators in higher education and healthcare simulation programs to help prepare learners to succeed in diverse healthcare training environments. For more than 135 years, Elsevier has allowed learners to practice and apply essential skills in controlled, monitored environments by providing [...]

Unveiled and demonstrated at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) conference in 2014, vSim is a line of simulation products for nursing students to learn patient scenarios through virtual modules. Co-developed by Laerdal Medical and Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins division, the nationally recognized scenarios that vSim depicts are all tied [...]

Yet another must-see simulation technology from ASPIH 2018, today we examine iRIS: an intuitive, collaborative, simulation scenario authoring platform which can work with almost any manikin brand. Imagine having one collaborative simulation scenario development software which could easily convert your simulation experiences into almost any high fidelity patient simulator’s technology with the click of a [...]

This article is part 4 of a series of posts related to physiology, with this article introducing the physiology of diabetes. Some simulation team members may have a limited background in physiology or medicine. An understanding of basic physiological concepts can enable non medical simulationists to better understand medical simulation. (Note: See the entire series linked [...]