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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.
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Blog Entries for imagination
27
Jun
2011
2011
2010 Clinical Simulation Annual Report
Posted by Pamela Leonard
OUR VISION Looking back, 2010 was a year of remarkable growth in our simulation program development, national leadership, and designing the defining the business of clinical simulation. This year we were awarded the Brandon Hall Bronze Award for Blended Learning as well as The Healing Spirit Award. SiTEL Clinical Simulation Center (CSC) emerged as the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
01
Sep
2010
2010
Is Being Happily “At Work” Overrated?
Posted by Kathleen Donnelly-Wijting
Maslow’s work and ideas extend far beyond the Hierarchy of Needs. Psychologist Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory proposed that we are motivated by the five unmet needs, arranged in the hierarchical order. At the bottom are physiological needs (such life-sustaining needs as food and shelter). Working up the hierarchy we experience safety needs (financial [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
