Global Network for Simulation in Healthcare (GNSH) will host a free Virtual Spring Event The Renaissance of Health Professions Education and Simulation through AI on Thursday, April 25, 2024 from 10AM – 12PM EST. GNSH is able to leverage multiple groups and sectors in ways that single organizations cannot and the GNSH Summits provide a [...]
The EEDU clinical simulation course covers emerging technology such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to enable course relevance as technology advances now and in the future. EEDUSIM is the collaboration of healthcare simulation experts from various European countries. The EEDUSIM collaboration enhances course quality and promotes internationalization of the course and is [...]
The Simulation Educator Needs Assessment Tool (SENAT) was developed by Britt, Xing, and Leighton (2023) based on a needs assessment and gap analysis for healthcare simulation professional development, the need to provide data regarding the simulation professional needs and desire for improvement, and to assist the creation of a professional development roadmap for clinical simulation [...]
PCS (Patient Communication Simulators) is a simulation technology and software engineering company that has been operating since 2015, specializing solely in healthcare simulation products driven by artificial intelligence (AI). PCS launched their 4th AI-driven product, SimVox in October of 2023. SimVox, the new AI speaker instantly and affordably adds innovative patient communication training technologies to [...]
Laerdal released MamaAnne, a maternal healthcare simulator, in 2024 to provide high-quality healthcare training to address the increasing maternal mortality rates. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), maternal deaths occur nearly every two minutes, which results in over a quarter million mothers dying a year. Maternal mortality rates are on the rise, especially in [...]
New forms of clinical simulation products are constantly released. As clinical simulation educators, the concept of a new or novel clinical simulation modality introduction is quite a common occurrence. This is a skill set that is required to ensure that new clinical simulation modalities are released in a safe and successful manner. With an experienced [...]