2010 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care

 2010 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care. Good venue to share the simulation experience to other quality improvement expert in this field. 

2010 IMSH Meeting

Just finished the abstract submission to next year IMSH meting.  Hope can see you all there. I will post a note about the meeting date and place if people are interested get together.

Future Tense: A new school for digital kids

Listened the NPR program Future Tense about a new school Quest to Learn using gaming technology to engage kids for more effective learning.  Medical education also need to put more effort on this as the new generation of the young physicians are grown up with the new digital media: game, mp3 and internet, podcast,etc.
Future [...]

The eLearning Guild : Immersive Learning Simulations 2008 : Research Library

Very interesting about e-learning. 
The eLearning Guild : Immersive Learning Simulations 2008 : Research Library

Bedside Ultrasonography, Central Line Placement

Another tutorial about ultrasound guided central line placement
Bedside Ultrasonography, Central Line Placement: Overview – eMedicine Clinical Procedures

Performance of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologists in a Simulation-Based Skills Assessment — Henrichs et al. 108 (1): 255 — Anesthesia & Analgesia

Another good example to using simulation for assessment (beyond education training).  Also see the EDITORIAL in the same issue.  It  remind me Dr. Gaba’s paper again for the future vision of simulation in health care
Performance of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologists in a Simulation-Based Skills Assessment — Henrichs et al. 108 (1): 255 — [...]

DefenseLink News Article: Simulation Brings Combat’s Chaos to Pendleton Facility

Do this need RCT to show the efficacy or better outcome? 
DefenseLink News Article: Simulation Brings Combat’s Chaos to Pendleton Facility

PhET: Simulations That Enhance Learning

Science just published a paper about using simulation to help students learning physics. This “encourage authentic and productive exploration of scientific phenomena, and provide credible animated models that usefully guide students’ thinking”.  In medicine, the Virtual Anesthesia Machine project is a great example.  More models and explorations are needed for this kind education activity in [...]

A randomized trial using medical simulation.

A randomized trial using medical simulation technology beyond medical education.  This is a great example using simulation applications for human factors and system evaluation suggested by Dr. Small.

Scariest Hospital Risks

How much medical simulation can do to help lower those Scariest Hospiital Risks?