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About Us
Quality, reliability and safety are primary concerns in your professional world—and in ours. At SiTEL of MedStar Health, we provide a comprehensive education and training solution to those who work in healthcare. As seasoned professionals, we have many years of experience in the practice and management of medicine and healthcare, respectively. We understand how training impacts performance in hospitals.
Products and Services
On Demand Learning
We help organizations leverage their own talent and build learning communities.
Clinical Simulation
We created and continue to manage two of the nation’s largest simulation centers.
Instructional Design
Our experiential learning approach blends clinical simulation, virtual worlds and on demand learning.
Live Events
Our Live Events provide an opportunities to learn about technologies, methodologies, and groundbreaking thinking.
Blog
Our integrated learning services are designed to empower healthcare organizations by combining Instructional Design, Clinical Simulation, Live Events, and On Demand Learning.
Learn. Practice. Perform.
Blog Archive
28
Jul
2010
2010
Transforming High School Career Education
Posted by Todd Borghesani
While we lead as the world’s greatest innovators, our international leadership position is eroding. The solution lies in embracing education’s strategic importance. We need to create a new school model that integrates real world experiences; that integrates the future of industry with regional economic realities. A new model that embraces the needs of today’s students. [...]
21
Jul
2010
2010
We Remain Totally Unprepared
Posted by Todd Borghesani
The latest disaster in the gulf has once again taught us how far we have to go before private industry and government can effectively coordinate in the face of a new threat. Yet, even once we have experienced a threat, disaster or crisis are “lessons learned” really institutionalized? Nine years after 9/11, we are chillingly [...]
15
Jul
2010
2010
Learning and Adapting from Medical Errors
Posted by Todd Borghesani
George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente says it best—the United States health-care system is “uncoordinated, unfocused, inconsistent, unmeasured, extremely inefficient, perversely incented, excessively expensive, and sometimes dangerous.” We don’t have a healthcare system, we have a sickness industry. The word system means a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole. We have [...]
07
Jul
2010
2010
Rick Blunt on the “Instructional Game Designer”
Posted by Rick Blunt
In the realm of Serious Games, there continues to be a considerable divide between Instructional Designers and Game Designers in their approaches, opinions, attitudes, practices, academic rearing, and respect for one another. There is also a lack of understanding by each of the skill, knowledge, and abilities of each. This lack of co-mingling of professions [...]
About Our Blog
Our blog focuses on myriad topics that relate to the evolving training and education industries. These topics include training in high-risk environments, career development and powerful technologies: games, simulations, social media, learning and collaboration. We also showcase streaming videos about authors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and speakers. If you think you have a relevant contribution, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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Hollie Adejumo
Hollie Adejumo has been a high school intern at the SiTEL Clinical Simulation Center since 2010. Her principal areas of academic interest include chemistry, calculus, and global health. She is interested in providing medical services to the public and serving as a health advocate for underrepresented populations. Hollie hopes that her research will help to reduce unnecessary deaths in the future. She will pursue a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, which will enable her to combine her interests. Proceeding to obtain an MD/PhD will give her the ability to have autonomy in the practice of medicine. This year Ms. Adejumo will be assessing the need for orthopedic simulators, and hopes to begin designing a program for an orthopedic simulator by the end of the year. Outside of school, Hollie participates in a variety of activities. Although she has been a competitive swimmer for most of her life, she also enjoys running cross country and track.
Joyce Donnellan
As the Director of Learning Management, Joyce Donnellan brings over two decades of experience in critical care nursing education and professional development to SiTEL, Medstar’s Simulation and Training Environment Laboratory. She oversees the development and operation of SiTEL’s learning management system. Ms. Donnellan specializes in the development and integration of the learning management systems in complex and decentralized environments. She has extensive experience in education and training, including the development of curricula for both live and e-learning platforms. Ms. Donnellan enjoys collaborating with program directors, educators, and other stakeholders to develop training events and effective curricula. Her research endeavors include studying the impact of online learning on organizational behavior, as well as the integration of educational games into curriculum development. Joyce has presented nationally on e-learning topics, and on innovation in emergency preparedness training. She earned her Master’s of Science in Nursing degree from George Mason University.
Pamela Leonard
Pamela Leonard brings over 15 years of experience in critical care nursing and management to her role as the Director of the SiTEL’s Clinical Simulation Centers. Pam established the first simulation center for MedStar Health and now oversees the operations of several clinical simulation centers in the greater Washington, DC and Baltimore areas. She leads the Clinical Simulation Consulting Services at SiTEL, leveraging best practices pioneered at MedStar to integrate simulation training and education programs into healthcare operations. Pam works closely with Advanced Initiatives in Medical Simulation. AIMS is a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to promoting medical simulation as a way to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors, ensure provider competency, train people to respond to public emergencies and combat situations, and reduce health care costs.
