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.
A few weeks ago my wife and I traveled to Colorado to catch a couple of concerts. Having only visited Colorado once in the past, I knew that I would be relying on the GPS in my phone to get me to the venues, hotels and various other stops we were planning. Colorado is a [...]
The Board on Science Education at the National Research Council has just released a new report, “Learning Science: Computer Games, Simulations, and Education.”
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 [...]
Study shows employees learn best from video games. Long derided as mere entertainment, new research now shows that organizations using video games to train employees end up with smarter, more motivated workers who learn more and forget less. A University of Colorado Denver Business School study found those trained on video games do their jobs [...]
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.
The 2010 AHA Guidelines were recently released in October. This is an exciting time for all healthcare professionals, professional rescuers, and the lay rescuer. There are some significant changes in the AHA guidelines. It is important to begin your review as soon as possible to understand the recommendations. As an authorized provider of CPR and [...]
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.
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 [...]
Virtual reality exercises overwhelmingly seen as a good way to sharpen skills, poll finds. The vast majority of medical school students believe that technology in the form of virtual reality exercises could help them to develop the skills they will need as future doctors, a new survey reveals. The survey of 200 medical students from [...]
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