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| FROM THE DESK OF THE SSH DIRECTOR OF CERTIFICATION |
Are you ready? The new exams for CHSE and CHSOS will be launched at IMSH and around the world on January 26, 2019. These exams are the result of the practice analysis that began in July 2017 and culminated in the examination blueprints that were released in August 2018.
IMPORTANT: the pass/fail results will initially need to be held — so all who take the exams for approximately two months (around the end of March) will receive them once the data is analyzed and the cut scores are determined. We are offering a choice of incentives valued at $50 (USD) as a thank you for your patience for all who have to wait.
The current examinations and examination blueprints will be in force until January 25, 2019, and results are still given on completion of the examination at the testing center through that date.
For more details on the new examination blueprints, preparing the exams, the incentives, and all other certification related items, please go to www.simcertification.com.
Don’t forget — we are celebrating the Class of 2019 Fellows of the SSH Academy, and recognizing those who achieved or renewed their certifications and accreditations in 2018 at the President’s Diamond Ball at IMSH in San Antonio. This black-tie optional event will be fantastic—come and celebrate with us!
~ Andrew Spain
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ZDNet
The GIBLIB training module employs 4K, 360-degree views of virtual operating theaters. Users can toggle between views of surgeons and support personnel, as well as external and laparoscopic feeds. "We are excited to bring Cedars-Sinai medicine virtually to any doctor at any medical facility," said Harry Sax, MD, executive vice chair of the Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery. "With this technology, other medical professionals can learn our advanced techniques and procedures and ultimately, deliver excellent care to patients across the country." The surgeries are even narrated by experts in the field, who introduce students to the latest in robotic and laparoscopic surgical techniques.
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WUFT-FM
Thick gloves, dark glasses and headphones playing loud noise immersed North Florida healthcare professionals into the world of dementia patients in a recent demonstration. Absolute Health, of Ocala, hosted the Virtual Dementia Tour that attempts to simulate the experience of patients living with dementia. Kindred at Home, a senior health care service, provides the virtual tour to different care centers, said Bijou Ikli, director of strategic partnerships. The tour is useful to both healthcare personnel and caretakers so that they are better equipped to treat and care for patients experiencing dementia, she said.
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University of Michigan Health
For many patients, the idea of undergoing an MRI and spending an extended period in an enclosed, narrow space is the stuff of nightmares. With this in mind, a multidisciplinary University of Michigan team from the Department of Radiology and the Duderstadt Center's Emerging Technologies Group developed a virtual reality app this year to help patients better understand and prepare for the procedure by "experiencing" it from home. "The app allows patients to fully experience the sensation of being inside of a scanner," said Daniel Fessahazion, associate director of the Emerging Technologies Group. "As a patient turns their head or moves their body, they can see the room around them while the system detects their motion and provides them with the illusion that they are inside the MRI."
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Virtual Clinical Scenarios are dynamic, online assignments that enable students to practice critical thinking, clinical judgment and problem solving skills, while earning simulated clinical hours or even preparing for the NCLEX! Register to learn about Prioritization of Care and Patient Management and Delegation on December 5th as Healthcare Learning Innovations hosts a webinar!
REGISTER HERE
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KCRG-TV
Nurses, doctors and even healthcare students who want to practice on pediatric patients in Cedar Rapids can now turn to a new high-tech helper at Mercy Medical Center. It's a patient simulator that goes by the name "Pediatric HAL." The simulated patient's eyes move to follow nurses and his facial expressions can mimic symptoms of various ailments. An instructor at the controls can trigger verbal responses like "my tummy hurts" and react to what students are doing. Nursing students can poke him with a needle and watch as he cries tears that look real. They can also do various procedures and draw fluids that resemble what they'd get from a real patient.
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Electronic Component News
During radiation treatment, which can last hours, the volume of the patient's bladder continuously changes as it fills and empties, which can affect the size and location of the prostate and cause the tumor to displace. To address the problem, researchers created a simulation of how the organs might move or change the location of a tumor by creating a model constructed from a series of 2-D medical scans. They then use those scans to generate a 3-D image and apply a graphic mesh, which becomes the mathematical framework of the 3-D animation.
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By Lynn Hetzler
The internet has changed how consumers experience healthcare. People now search the internet for information on a particular health problem they may be having, for example. In fact, 6 in 10 people said they turned to the internet for health problems within the previous year, according to a 2013 survey by Pew Research Center. Consumers are also increasingly using online rating programs to rate and review hospitals. In a new study, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, researchers describe and compare the content and ratings of online reviews of urgent care centers and emergency departments.
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The Hamilton Spectator
Dubbed "Sim Bay," the facility was constructed in what was once an ambulance bay adjacent to the Halifax Infirmary site's emergency department. Sim Bay provides "fully immersive medical simulations" where physicians and health-care teams use high-fidelity patient simulators (essentially robotic mannequins) and cadavers as an alternative to real patients. It offers a debrief room, a fully equipped high-fidelity simulation area complete with a plastic mannequin, a control room where scenarios are created and unfold, and an area where healthcare teams can carry out surgical procedures on lifelike cadaveric specimens.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you with Anesthesia SimSTAT! Practicing physicians will experience high-fidelity scenarios in a virtual environment to help improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies while fulfilling continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
New scenario now available!
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More effectively design, manage, deliver and measure screen-based, physical and VR simulation training with a single solution. Health Scholars One™ blended learning platform and content applications are designed specifically for clinicians and promote patient safety scenarios that are often not readily available or difficult to scale.
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KREM-TV
Nick Randall is a second year medical student at Washington State University in Spokane. As a student with the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, he often works with virtual reality. "Right now in class we are working on neuroanatomy so I can pull up cranial nerves that appear right in front of me," he said. The simulation in particular he uses allows students to learn where human organs and structures are inside the human body, in comparison to other structures.
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Daily Nurse
Located in a modern wing of Fremont Health Center, the lab includes five high-fidelity Gaumard Manikins. Deborah Brester, MSN, RN, a professor at Midland University, has already seen how students are greatly benefiting from having access to simulated learning in addition to their classroom education. "The lab complements the traditional clinical experience by allowing our students to experience real-life scenarios," Brester said. "You can simulate an entire birthing experience, cardiac arrest — anything. You can give IVs and draw blood. Instructors can even speak through them and simulate distress."
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