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About Us
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.
Learn. Practice. Perform.
Blog Entries for social networks
22
Nov
2010
2010
Washington D.C. is 3rd Brainiest City
Posted by Todd Borghesani
It is great to see that Washington, D.C. — the location of our headquarters — is the 3rd brainiest with a brainpower index of 2.573. Washington, D.C. has characteristics like no other city. Federal agency headquarters, Congress, two thousand associations and numerous think tanks create a unique population of thinking minds. When you live outside [...]
19
Oct
2010
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 [...]
02
Sep
2010
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 [...]
28
Aug
2010
2010
Taking Off the Gloves: Social vs. Formal Learning
Posted by Todd Borghesani
This is going to be a knock-down, drag-out fight. In one corner, we have formal education, experienced, buffed, battle hardened. In the other corner we have social learning, agile, feisty, chanting “fight like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” However, before we take sides, place our bets, let’s take a look at the contenders and [...]
23
Aug
2010
2010
Long Live the Internet
Posted by Todd Borghesani
As you read about the changing dynamics of the Internet, consider the possibilities for training. How can we leverage these changes to the advantage of learners? Is formal learning becoming less important? Life in the media and communications terrarium, it seems, is getting increasingly perilous. The predictions of demise are piling up. Phone calls, e-mail, [...]
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.
