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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. [...]

16
Dec
2010

Google Earth For The Human Body

Posted by Todd Borghesani

Google Earth and Google Maps have long helped people search for and map streets, towns and even the universe and its oceans. Now the company is looking to do the same thing on a more micro level.

01
Dec
2010

NRC Research Report: Games & Simulations

Posted by Todd Borghesani

The Board on Science Education at the National Research Council has just released a new report, “Learning Science:  Computer Games, Simulations, and Education.”

29
Nov
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 [...]

01
Nov
2010

Video Games: Remember More, Forget Less

Posted by Todd Borghesani

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 [...]

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.

19
Oct
2010

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change

Posted by Todd Borghesani

From the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, the Future of Nursing explores how nurses‘ roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America’s [...]

05
Oct
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 [...]

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 [...]

02
Sep
2010

Med Students Embrace Video Game Technology

Posted by Todd Borghesani

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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    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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