While the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed demand for in-person learning, Education Management Solutions’ (EMS) commitment to providing quality educational experiences has not shifted. Through development of the SIMULATIONiQ Virtual OSCE solution, the company has been able to provide virtual healthcare simulation management technology to help clients and continue to deliver their best-in-class virtual, video-based [...]

To correctly prepare learners for the physical, emotional, psychological and ethical challenges they may encounter in the field, some healthcare simulation educators have begun to implement virtual standardized patient solutions. Helping to provide these solutions, the technology company Avkin has developed virtual standardized patients that include real humans. This realistic environment brings together the best [...]

Narrative medicine uses the practice of engaging with the arts – literature, painting, graphics arts and music – to develop humanistic competency across healthcare simulation. This approach seeks to situate the narrative – storytelling — in all forms at the center of medicine and healthcare overall. The following article, guest co-authored by Tony Errichetti PhD [...]

The Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) is a global organization focused on human simulation via Standardized Patients, aka Simulated Patients. The organization serves as a virtual community for connection to the field of medical simulation. Next week is their annual conference event which has “gone virtual” due to COVID19, so here today we are showcasing some [...]