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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
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Sep
2010
2010
Embracing Chaos: Social Media & Business
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Typically, the best training technologies represent the tools, environments and processes of our jobs. When we can apply technologies that we use every day to learning, we have the greatest potential for skills transfer. As social media technologies are increasingly embraced by companies as communication tools, their use as training technologies become even more relevant.
27
Sep
2010
2010
Rise and Fall of Brain Training
Posted by Todd Borghesani
While game technologies can be used to train myriad topics in immersive ways, using brain training software to become, generally, smarter has been disproven. Once touted as the fastest way to hone your mental powers, brain training software has now been consigned to the shelf of technologies that failed to live up to expectations. What [...]
25
Sep
2010
2010
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience
Posted by Todd Borghesani
A resource that I suggest subscribing to is the National Academies Press. The National Academies is an amazing treasure for our nation and their publishing unit does a magnificent job capturing and disseminating all their knowledge. How People Learn is an excellent example of why you should get on their mailing list. This popular trade [...]
21
Sep
2010
2010
E-Learning Set to Increase, Survey Says
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Tighter budgets will increase the use of e-learning technology in the corporate training market, a survey has found. The Learning Trends Index, undertaken by training content provider Good Practice and The Learning Sanctuary, found that 76% of learning and development (L&D) managers are predicting wider use of such technologies as resources tighten.
19
Sep
2010
2010
Unleashing Creativity in Healthcare
Posted by Todd Borghesani
The hysterectomy is one of the most invasive surgical procedures in medical practice. Imagine a technique that could do delicate post-surgery stitch work with minimized chances of complications or harm. Sounds like something a seasoned physician developed, but it’s actually something a 15-year-old high school student named Tony Hansberry invented. People in his hometown of [...]
16
Sep
2010
2010
Johns Hopkins Hospital: Gunman Attacks
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Warren Davis, 50, Upset About Mother Jean’s Treatment Shoots Doctor, Then Kills Self and Mother. A gunman upset over news about his mother’s medical condition opened fire inside Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital Thursday morning, wounding a doctor before fatally shooting his mom and then turning the gun on himself.
16
Sep
2010
2010
Essentials of Terror Medicine
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Open publication – Free publishing – More terrorism The healthcare concerns of terror medicine are far-reaching. Chapter Five, authored by Dr. Yuri Millo, Director of SiTEL, addresses the need for education and training in the area of terror medicine. If a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs on American territory, the main difficulty with disaster response [...]
14
Sep
2010
2010
Helping ODS Security Protect Hospitals
Posted by Todd Borghesani
ODS Security is now combining the principles of Family Centered Care with threatening behavior protection training to augment its protective services for healthcare and hospital security. ODS Security recognizes the increasing need for its hospital security guards to be trained in observing and recognizing threatening behavior to avert the growing threat of violent incidents at [...]
12
Sep
2010
2010
Recruiting Minorities Into Healthcare Professions
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Rx For Success, a Baltimore career education program creates an education-to-workforce pipeline strengthening diversity in healthcare. African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska Natives are projected to make up nearly 30 percent of the nation’s population in 2010, according to the u.S. Census Bureau. But according to the American Medical Association, these groups combined account [...]
09
Sep
2010
2010
The Medical School of Tomorrow
Posted by Pamela Leonard
The clinical simulation center of today will be the medical school of tomorrow. To address physician and nursing shortages, across the next 10-15 years, we will see an unprecedented growth in healthcare education. The question remains whether the quality of education will change with the increased volume. We think so. Transforming medical and nursing school [...]
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.
