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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.
Live Events
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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Blog Entries for entertainment
29
Nov
2010
2010
Kinect: Gesture-Sensitive Sensor System
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Using a gesture-sensitive sensor system for input into immersive environments could have huge implications in the medical training market. Originally, posted on Fast Company, Microsoft’s Kinect is being hacked left, right, and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup [...]
23
Oct
2010
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.
05
Oct
2010
2010
Virtual World Users Break One Billion
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Virtual Worlds, and their incumbent technologies, offer men and women, who operate in high-risk environments, a valuable training platform. The growth of virtual worlds is mind-boggling. More telling perhaps than just the record-breaking number of one billion is the demographic where this is occurring: 468 million virtual world registered users are between the ages of [...]
21
Aug
2010
2010
Playing Reality: Roleplaying and Teamwork
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Sully noted that, remarkably, young children could make the play situation and reality coincide. He described a case where two sisters, aged five and seven, said to each other, ‘Let’s play sisters.’ They were playing reality. Our simulation scenarios are so successful because roleplaying is really a high-end learning exercise dressed up as an entertainment [...]
03
Aug
2010
2010
The Period Rush and its Application to Training
Posted by Bruce Milligan
“The battle started at 3:00 that afternoon — historically accurate. It was off the hook. I felt like I was living the first 15 minutes of “Saving Private Ryan.” You can’t imagine the period rush you get when you see 2,000 Confederates coming at you over a hill with muskets blazing.” – A Civil War [...]
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.
