Founded in 2004, the Arizona Simulation Technology & Education Center (ASTEC) moved to a new 30,000 sq. ft. facility in 2020, located inside the Health Sciences Innovation Building on the University of Arizona Health Sciences (UAHS) campus. The sim center’s purpose is to provide learners with interprofessional learning opportunities in a high-tech, realistically simulated environment. [...]
With the rise of remote-access telepresence robots, clinical simulation educators have begun to consider whether this technology can help meet their program’s objectives. Before this technology can be implemented, simulation administrators and educators must understand how remote robots provide telepresence capability. Using this knowledge, the health care simulationist can then decide if they would like [...]
This week, HealthySimulation.com’s new healthcare simulation expert interview series “Simterviews” speaks with Dr. Allan Hamilton, MD, FACS, the executive director of the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center (ASTEC). Hamilton started his working life as janitor and went on to become a decorated Army veteran, a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, and a medical consultant for the [...]
Continuing HealthySimulation.com’s coverage of Medical Simulation companies you need to know about, today we cover 10 more healthcare simulation vendors that are providing high quality in-demand learning tools in the domain of clinical simulation! These simulation in healthcare vendors and organizations are important to know more about as they may offer unique products and services [...]
