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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.
Learn. Practice. Perform.
Blog Entries for team training
22
Jun
2011
2011
Celebrating MedStar’s New Clinical Simulation Center
Posted by Pamela Leonard
Next week, we open one the Nation’s most advanced simulation center’s. The simulation center’s modular design supports multiple technologies that combine to create an exceptionally experiential environment that supports the learning objectives. The space is designed to train healthcare professionals and students in the domains of skill acquisition, clinical reasoning, communication, and team training.
31
Jan
2011
2011
Redesigning the Learning Environment
Posted by Pamela Leonard
When you walk into a classroom, office or simulation center, while it may seem obvious to many, it all starts with the user experience. The physical environment impacts how we learn. The challenge faced with designing new simulation training environments is to create a space that can be rapidly transformed, allowing frequent transitions across diverse [...]
12
Jan
2011
2011
Save the Date | Innovative Education Conference
Posted by Todd Borghesani
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.
01
Nov
2010
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 [...]
17
Oct
2010
2010
2010 AHA Guidelines Primer: Part One
Posted by Mariella While
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 [...]
04
Oct
2010
2010
Simulation Training Series: Part One
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Compared to other high-risk industries, healthcare has been slow to incorporate simulation into its training, assessment, and certification activities. The potential for simulation to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and deaths, and decrease health care costs is far from fully realized. Simulation strengthens confidence and promotes competence by providing a safe and supportive environment [...]
12
Sep
2010
2010
Recruiting Minorities Into Healthcare Professions
Posted by Todd Borghesani
Rx For Success, a Baltimore career education program creates an education-to-workforce pipeline strengthening diversity in healthcare. African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska Natives are projected to make up nearly 30 percent of the nation’s population in 2010, according to the u.S. Census Bureau. But according to the American Medical Association, these groups combined account [...]
09
Sep
2010
2010
The Medical School of Tomorrow
Posted by Pamela Leonard
The clinical simulation center of today will be the medical school of tomorrow. To address physician and nursing shortages, across the next 10-15 years, we will see an unprecedented growth in healthcare education. The question remains whether the quality of education will change with the increased volume. We think so. Transforming medical and nursing school [...]
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 [...]
05
Sep
2010
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 [...]
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.
