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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.
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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.
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Our Live Events provide an opportunities to learn about technologies, methodologies, and groundbreaking thinking.
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Our integrated learning services are designed to empower healthcare organizations by combining Instructional Design, Clinical Simulation, Live Events, and On Demand Learning.
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08
Feb
2011
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. [...]
07
Oct
2010
2010
Neurons That Shaped Civilization
Posted by Todd Borghesani
One of the primary goals of training is to change behavior as it relates to the training subject matter. We use the phrase “learn by doing” to describe one of the most powerful forms of training. Yet, do we understand how we actually learn by doing, physiologically speaking? Don’t we really watch-and-learn-by-doing? The physiological factors [...]
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 [...]
07
Sep
2010
2010
Defining Intelligence
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Increasingly, to make training more effective, we not only must understand how individuals learn we must train them according to their intellectual strengths. Understanding how a learner learns is central to developing performance-based adaptive learning systems. At the core of this understanding is “intelligence.” Max Miller of Big Think does a great job summing up [...]
18
Aug
2010
2010
How New Technology Is Rewiring Our Brains
Posted by Todd Borghesani
I ran across this article from PC Week’s Contributing Editor, Dan Tynan. Here are few new technologies that have changed the way we interact with the world. As new technologies offer new ways of doing old things, we have to take into account the implications for training.
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.
