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By Whitney Smith
 Since the simulation program at Children's Hospital Colorado was established in 2013, our team has been working to improve discharge education for families of children dependent on a tracheostomy or ventilator. Many of these families return to states in which there is limited home care assistance available, so effective education prior to discharge is critical. We quickly discovered, however, that our adolescent-sized manikin did not fit the fidelity needs of families who had infants.
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The University of Texas at Dallas
A research team from the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas has received two grants — one each from Southwestern Medical Foundation and the National Institutes for Health — to fuel ongoing research into virtual reality-based medical experiences. The Center for Modeling and Simulation and the Virtual Humans and Synthetic Societies Lab are developing an emotive "Virtual Reality Patient," or VRP, that medical students will be able to use to improve their patient communication skills.
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The Whig
St. Lawrence College unveiled a new $1 million medical training lab designed to give its nursing students a realistic patient experience. The new Clinical Simulation Lab was built to teach students in the practical nursing, medical laboratory Science Assistant and pre-health science programs. The lab includes about a half-dozen high-tech mannequins that are controlled by a technologist in an adjacent room.
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WMBD-TV
Imagine a heart the size of a room, each of its chambers a hallway you can walk through. Well, now surgeons at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center don't have to imagine it. Virtual reality technology is helping surgeons to solve complex cases, leading to better outcomes for patients. It wasn't long ago that these same doctors were celebrating 3-D printed hearts, but just a few short months later the collaborative effort of engineers and clinicians at the Jump Trading and Simulation Center is allowing them to go a step further — inside the heart.
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3DPrint.com
It's hard not to be fascinated by virtual reality. The fantasy of being able to immerse yourself in a nonexistent environment and navigate as if you are part of it would have seemed only an idea fit for movies not that long ago. Using that technology for entertainment has been a no-brainer, but a recent exploration at the University of Saskatchewan has demonstrated that the brain might actually be the perfect environment for a more serious side of VR.
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Blended Learning with vSim® for Nursing and Scenarios from the National League for Nursing.
When students experience the same patient encounter through different technologies, it allows them to reinforce their knowledge and gradually build confidence and competence.
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U.S. News & World Report
To reflect the changing nature of how healthcare is delivered, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the U.S. accrediting body for allopathic medical degree programs, has added a competency related to interdisciplinary skills. To achieve this, medical students need to learn how to work respectfully and efficiently with nursing, social work, physical therapy and other healthcare trainees.
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Pocket Nurse helps thousands of health education programs operate efficiently with an extensive catalog of products that provide everything an educator needs. For more information visit pocketnurse.com, call 1-800-225-1600, or email cs@pocketnurse.com.
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University of Delaware
SimUCare has modernized the learning experience and training of future healthcare providers. With a line of wearable technology called SimUWear, students are provided with a medically complex simulated learning experience. Standardized patients, or human actors trained to portray a specific patient, wear the SimUWear gear, which then simulates actual medical situations as well as respond to the student's actions.
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The Straits Times
Medical schools are turning to part-time actors to help students polish their bedside manners, long before they reach a real patient's bedside. The actors take part in elaborate role plays, simulating patients to help mimic the challenges of hospital work. Dr. Tanya Tierney, assistant dean of clinical communication training and student welfare at the Nanyang Technological University school of medicine, said the sessions make students more aware of what they say and how they say it.
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Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is operating in violation of federal law by using live animals to teach paramedics from the Montgomery County Hospital District, according to a complaint filed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine on Jan. 12. According to a recently completed survey of all paramedic training programs in Texas, Baylor and Montgomery County Hospital District have the only paramedic program in the state still using animals. Every other program (totaling 46) uses only nonanimal training methods, such as human-based medical simulation, partial task trainers and cadavers.
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Sentinel City™ is an immersive online educational simulation providing community health nursing students the ability to complete windshield surveys and other assignments digitally, while earning simulated learning clinical hours. It’s easy for course faculty to implement, and is aligned with QSEN, NLN core competencies, and AACN BSN Essentials. Learn more today!
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McClatchy via EMS World
The high-pitched calls for help came from the pond behind the Norwich Township firehouse near Hilliard, Ohio. Floating in bright orange cold-water suits were two medical residents acting out the part of victims who had fallen into the cold water. The water drill was part of a simulation put on by the fire department and OhioHealth to help doctors understand what patients and emergency responders go through before they reach the doors of an emergency department.
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