Blog Entries for blended learning

26
Sep
2011

Reprint: Halldale’s Article on DC Sim Center

Posted by Pamela Leonard

This past June (2011), we at Simulation and Training Environment Lab (SiTEL) of Medstar Health opened our newest Clinical Simulation Center, CSC DC, located at 4000 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008. This center is a state-of-the-art facility built in partnership with Herman Miller. CSC DC serves both MedStar’s hospitals and the healthcare community in [...]

08
Feb
2011

Attend Our Innovative Education Conference

Posted by Todd Borghesani

Attend SiTEL’s 2011 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION CONFERENCE: MINDFUL LEARNING. Earn CME and nursing contact hours as you engage in Mindful Learning! This year’s conference theme is Mindful Learning. Real learning takes place in “mindful” environments: ones that both provide context for the subject we are studying and allow us to bring something of ourselves into the process. [...]

12
Jan
2011

Save the Date | Innovative Education Conference

Posted by Todd Borghesani

SiTEL, MedStar Health’s Simulation Training and Environment Lab, invites you to save the date for April 11, 2011. In its fourth year, our Innovative Education Conference continues to bring engaged professionals together for informative training and leadership.

23
Oct
2010

IEEE Paper, Real-Time Intubation Simulator

Posted by Todd Borghesani

We are proud to announce that the paper “Real-Time Fiber-Optic Intubation Simulator with Force Feedback” written by Ankur R. Baheti, Robert Hafey, Sneha Pai, Jose Gomez, Yuri Millo, and Jaydev P. Desai was accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Journal “Transactions on Mechatronics.” The abstract of the paper is below.

04
Oct
2010

Simulation Training Series: Part One

Posted by Todd Borghesani

Compared to other high-risk industries, healthcare has been slow to incorporate simulation into its training, assessment, and certification activities. The potential for simulation to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and deaths, and decrease health care costs is far from fully realized. Simulation strengthens confidence and promotes competence by providing a safe and supportive environment [...]

29
Sep
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.

21
Sep
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.

05
Sep
2010

Training & The Learning Healthcare System

Posted by Todd Borghesani

What follows was excerpted from Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, “The Learning Healthcare System.” As we think strategically about training future healthcare professionals, the training industry will need to design interventions and tools based on dramatic increases in just-in-time bioinformation. The United States can develop a rapid learning healthcare system. New research capabilities [...]

30
Aug
2010

Anti-Comic Book Crusader’s Papers Available

Posted by Todd Borghesani

As we present to enterprises that want to achieve high-reliability in high-risk environments, we recommend a blended learning solution. Driven by a client’s business outcomes and needs, we design their training regime, combining simulation training in real settings, online content, as well as dynamic content in the shape of VIDEO GAMES and/or simulations. As I [...]

25
Aug
2010

Look-alike Medical Tubes Kill Patients

Posted by Todd Borghesani

With regard to preventable medical errors, medical tube mix-ups are a reality the can be solved with training and improved product design. While improved product design is hampered by federal approvals and international standards adoption, online and simulation training in [virtual] environments using 3D devices and mannequins remains a cost-effective and time sensitive solution. “This [...]

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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.

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