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Faulkner State Community College uses iStan to enact a texting while driving scenario—and sends a powerful message to the community.
The New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Institute for Clinical Competence showcased iStan at New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum "Women in Science" event in March. Pictured, Patient Simulation Specialist Anthony Guerne of NYCOM.
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DR. ROBERT AMYOT ON PIONEERING NEW SIMULATION IN MEDICINE Dr. Robert Amyot, Chief Medical Officer for CAE Healthcare, explains why physicians need simulation today more than ever
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TEXTING WHILE DRIVING Faulkner State Community College uses simulation to raise awareness of the consequences of texting while driving AND THE DISASTER FOR TODAY IS … The Center for Domestic Preparedness runs its simulators through weapons of mass destruction scenarios to prepare all levels of healthcare for mass casualties
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HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE EXPANDS ITS SIMULATION CENTER One of the earliest adopters of simulation for anesthesia, Hamamatsu now offers simulation to more healthcare disciplines
Medical residents at the Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan explore the newly expanded simulation center before its official opening.
PRAIRIE VIEW A & M UNIVERSITY WINS A SECOND METI CUP Medical the Hamamatsu Reigning champions Prairie View A & Mresidents Universityat of Texas take home the prize after winning the HPSN METI Cup Nursing University School of Medicine in Japan Challenge explore the newly expanded simulation center before its official opening.
HPSN 2012 CONFERENCE WRAP-UP Compelling keynotes, more than 140 active sessions, the METI Cup Challenge and a larger international audience add up to the most productive HPSN conference to date
2012 UK SIMULATION IN NURSING EDUCATION CONFERENCE Coming up in Leeds, the UK Simulation in Nursing Conference will focus on the lively discussion surrounding international simulation standards
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UPCOMING HPSN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Find simulation events that will be coming to your region
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MEASURING SIMULATION LEARNING IN MALAYSIA Dr. Dinker Pai is measuring stress levels and long-term knowledge gained among medical students who are new to simulation at Melaka Manipal Medical College in Malaysia
On the cover: Faulkner State Community College presented a texting while driving scenario to more than 1,000 students in November. Healthcare Simulation News is published quarterly by CAE Healthcare at 6300 Edgelake Drive, Sarasota, FL 34240. Telephone: (941) 377-5562. Send your feedback or article ideas to Kim Cartlidge at kim.cartlidge@cae.com. Copyright 2012 by CAE Healthcare. All rights reserved.
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The Center for Domestic Preparedness Noble Training Facility
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Why did you choose to focus more on healthcare simulation at this point in your career? We need to find new ways of learning. We’re facing exponential growth in the medical literature and new procedures. It’s much harder today for physicians to stay up to date. My grandfather was a physician for 50 years. From day one to the last day of his practice in 1976, there was only one way to treat an acute coronary syndrome—bed rest and nitro. Today, we have an explosion of treatments. In cardiology, our guidelines are changing every few months, and we are bombarded with information from different societies. Medical literature doubles every eight to nine years. We need to find new ways of learning, and not just to read about treatments, but to practice.
You initiated development of the world’s first transthoracic echocardiography simulator with virtual reality and took it to market before selling VIMEDIX to CAE Healthcare. When did you first develop your interest in simulation? Seven years ago, I would see all the University of Montreal cardi-
Q & A WITH DR. ROBERT AMYOT Chief Medical Officer of CAE Healthcare
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In January, CAE Healthcare appointed Dr. Robert Amyot as Chief Medical Officer. A cardiologist echocardiographer at Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montreal, Dr. Amyot now plans to dedicate more of his time to advancing simulation for physicians.
“We need to find new ways of learning, and not just to read about treatments, but to practice.”
ology residents in my echo lab for their echo rotations. We did the TEE (transesophageal exam) to better see the heart. It’s a very important exam that you do on a sedated conscious patient, and it can have major complications. I felt it didn’t make sense that the first time our residents would practice that procedure would be on a patient. In my mind, we were exposing patients to unnecessary complications and discomfort. It seemed to me that there was a better way. I was looking into simulation without knowing. How can simulation address rapid advancements in medicine? Atrial fibrillation can now be treated with catheters with a very high rate of success. This is a revolution, but at the same time, there is a learning curve. When physicians practice that procedure, they will often practice on anesthetized pigs. For every procedure, there is always a new catheter or a new device to try. We can use simulation to more efficiently learn the content and the skills in a fastevolving field like catheterbased interventions.
Dr. Robert Amyot initiated development of the CAE VIMEDIX ultrasound simulator to train cardiologists.
What do you see as the next step for healthcare simulation? I’d like to lobby for the use of simulation for certification. I think it would be very useful instead of logbooks or multiplechoice questions to immerse the trainees into the real thing. For example, in point-of-care
ultrasound, several societies are going to suggest a number of exams, so basically you would build a logbook. It shouldn’t be number of cases-based, but competency-based. A good way to assess competency is with simulation.
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Faulkner State Community College Uses Patient Simulation to Deliver a Texting While Driving Message to the Community IN
A DARK AUDITORIUM PACKED WITH MORE THAN 1,000 HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS, ALL EYES ARE TRANSFIXED ON AN EMERGENCY ROOM REENACTMENT. A MEDICAL TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING TO RESUSCITATE A 17-YEAR-OLD DRIVER WHO HAS SUFFERED MULTIPLE INJURIES IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT. ACCORDING TO THE 911 CALL, THE YOUNG DRIVER HAD BEEN WITNESSED SWERVING AND TEXTING WHILE DRIVING. AS THE TEEN’S SISTER STANDS BY HIS SIDE AND THE MOTHER WAILS FOR HER SON, THE EMERGENCY ROOM NURSE DELIVERS DEVASTATING NEWS. IN THE FINAL SCENE, THE TEAM ZIPS THE TEENAGER INTO A BODY BAG AND WHEELS HIM AWAY.
aulkner State Community College launched its patient simulation program one year ago through its Fairhope Campus Nursing Program, and already one scenario has made an impact in the community. In addition to teaching nursing students how to respond to traumatic auto injuries, the faculty is using simulation to try to prevent them. “Our very first texting while driving demonstration was for 18 people,” said Faulkner State Nursing Instructor Katrina Allen-Thomas, who portrays the young driver’s mother in the scenario. “Now we’ve presented it five times. In November, we traveled to our largest campus in Bay Minette. News Five (WKRG) covered the event and ran it on the 6 o’clock news.” The scenario was conceived by two of the college’s adjunct faculty; ER Nurse Carman Godfrey and Flight Nurse Valarie Rumbley. “Both of them see traumatic events on a regular basis, and they had seen numerous texting while driving injuries,” said Allen-Thomas. “It was their vision, and they had a really strong conviction about it.” “The first time we ever presented to high school students, they were inconsolable,” Allen-Thomas said. They later learned that the Fairhope High School Class of 2011 had lost a well-known student to texting and driving. The texting-while-driving team presented the scenario to a standing-room-only crowd of healthcare educators at the HPSN conference in Tampa in March. At first, the injured patient was stable, but he rapidly deteriorated within the hour-long reenactment. Using a moulaged iStan patient simulator programmed as a 17-year-old adult, the patient transitioned to bradycardia and to asystole rapidly. “At the conference, everybody loved our moulage because we moulaged him for less than $5. We used black eye shadow, Halloween wounds, clay from Simulaids, and strawberry jelly. We covered him with grass because he was ejected from his vehicle. We moulaged him in less than 15 minutes,” Allen-Thomas said.
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The Faulkner State Community College nursing faculty presented its dramatic “Texting While Driving” simulation to more than 1,000 high school and college students in November. The simulation was conceived by an ER nurse and a flight nurse who serve as Faulkner State adjunct faculty.
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his month, having grabbed the attention of the Baldwin County area, the team is planning a community simulation that will center around driving while impaired and involve EMS and paramedic responders. They are also seeking funding for travel to present their messages to high schools around the country. The vision of FSCC is to encourage others to use their simulation to reach their communities regarding the hazards of texting and driving. “I know this is going to take us places because it already has,” Allen-Thomas said. “Every day, I get 15 to 20 emails that say ‘thank you so much.’ I know we’ve saved a life along the way.”
The Faulkner State simulation team moulaged iStan for less than $5 with common products, including eye shadow, strawberry jelly and clay.
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Simulating Mass Casualty Explosions, WMDs, and Natural Disasters in Alabama
The Center for Domestic Preparedness Expands its WMD Wing Training Hospital Over the course of a month, a unique, 100-bed hospital in Anniston, Alabama, might overflow with victims of smallpox, mustard gas, dirty bomb explosions, chemical poisoning, mass shootings or natural disasters—all simulated and dropped into a routine hospital setting. As part of the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the Noble Training Facility (NTF) is the only fully operational hospital dedicated to preparing all disciplines of healthcare for mass casualty events caused by weapons of mass destruction and natural disasters. “We’re a little different from a training college where they are teaching skills,” says patient simulator specialist Robi Mobley. “When students come to us, they already have the skills, and we provide a chaotic environment for them to practice.”
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“We force students to make hard decisions concerning life and death, to use critical thinking skills, and to think outside the box when trying to manage resources. Using the simulators makes our training venues more realistic for the responders.” — Robi Mobley, patient simulation specialist at the Noble Training Facility
Opposite page, at far left, a physician attending the Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents (HCL) course intubates a METIman during an end-of-course exercise at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). At center, healthcare professionals receive a patient at the CDP's Noble Training Facility. Above, the clinicians listen to the heart sounds and breathing patterns from a METI HPS patient simulator.
The former Army hospital was left with some equipment and supplies intact when the Army closed down Ft. McClellan in 1998. The Center for Domestic Preparedness, which is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, acquired the hospital and has since expanded its use of patient simulation to cre-
ate chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) training scenarios. “The majority of our casualties are simulators or role players. Students deal with live patients instead of a cardboard cut-out with a makebelieve wound sign,” Mobley says. The scenarios are complex and challenging, intended to
impact experienced clinicians on many levels. For example, the hospital might discover that a chicken pox outbreak is actually smallpox. “Students may have to lock down or isolate the patients. Add a botulism scare, a shooting, an abducted baby, and a couple of drunks and you have a normal day in an emergency room,” says
Mobley. “We throw in these type of distractors to help break the stress level.” The Noble Training Facility recently updated and expanded its emergency department, which now houses a medical entrance with seven trauma rooms, two decontamination rooms, an isolation suite and a six-bay
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“In a real-life mass casualty situation, people could be pulled from all aspects of the hospital setting,” Mobley says, “so the diversity is great. We’ve even had CEOs and CFOs come in for training.”
trauma area that also serves as a simulation lab. In addition to the ER department, the two-floor hospital has medical and pediatric ICUs, a pediatric unit, three operating rooms, labor and delivery rooms, a nursery and a collection of patient simulators that includes 12 METImen, five adult METI HPS and four METI PediaSIM simulators. The hospital even has an adjacent heliport. In May, the center will add four CAE Caesars and two METI BabySIMs to the simulation program. Often, a facility or region will send a team of physicians, nurses, EMTs and medics to attend classes and play out scenarios. “In a real life mass casualty situation, people could be pulled from all aspects of the hospital setting,” Mobley says, “so the diversity is great. We’ve even had CEOs and CFOs come in for training.” Training courses will generally include 40 to 60 responders who have four hours to triage, decontaminate, provide treatment and transport up to 150 patients. In March, Mobley oversaw the Emergency Medical Operations (EMO) for CBRNE incidents course. Following a football stadium bomb explosion that caused panic, mass evacuation and traumatic injuries, the trainees focused on stabilizing patients for transport to the hospital. The responders quickly learned that the victims had been exposed to sarin nerve gas during the mass evacuation. The trainees had to run patients through decontamination procedures as well. “It gets pretty dramatic and chaotic. Whatever it takes to challenge students, many of whom have been doing this for a long time, we try to include in the scenario design,” Mobley says. “We force students to make hard decisions concerning life and death, to use critical thinking skills, and to think outside the box when trying to manage resources. Using the simulators makes our training venues more realistic for the responders.”
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Japan’s Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Opens New Simulation Center
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he Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan was one of the earliest adopters of high-fidelity patient simulation in the mid-1990s. On April 1, the university opened its new patient simulation center for medical students, residents, nurses and paramedics. Dr. Koji Morita, assistant professor and vice director at the university, oversees the simulation center. Founded in 1974, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine was the first six-year national college in the western area of the Shizuoka prefecture, which is also the home of Mount Fuji. The
university is located in a suburb of Hamamatsu City. Within Hamamatsu University’s simulation center, nurses learn how to handle medical equipment, including respirators, monitors and defibrillators. Anesthesia residents are required to pass a skills level qualification test on a patient simulator before they can treat a patient. Using CAE Healthcare’s METI HPS, the residents practice their response to potential complications that can occur within an anesthetized patient, such as sudden hypertension tachycardia or hypotension bradycardia. Several times a year, the center hosts advanced courses in crisis management sponsored by the Japanese Society of
Anesthesiologists, the Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia and the Japanese Association for Medical Simulation. The physicians practice scenarios related to obstetric crisis cases, including massive bleeding and hemorrhagic shock, as well as scenarios for anesthesia, which include malignant hyperthermia, pulmonary embolism, anaphylactic shock and cardiac tamponade. The university also invites high school students with an interest in medicine to half-day seminars that include speakers within the professions. After the presentations, students spend an hour in the simulation center with the HPS, where they can touch and interact with the “patient” and check his vital signs.
An early adopter of patient simulation for its anesthesiologists in the 1990s, Hamamatsu University Medical School has recently opened a new simulation center for all disciplines. In the photo at right, new residents explored the expanded center before attending a simulation session.
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Researchers Study Simulation Learning at Melaka Manipal Medical College
Malaysia’s Melaka Manipal Medical College began to incorporate high-fidelity patient simulation into its trauma management training in 2010, according to Dr. Dinker Pai, who is Professor and Head of the department of surgery at the college. The medical college was founded as a joint venture between India’s Manipal University and Mayalsia’s Melaka College in 2001 in order to provide more Malaysian students with opportunities to become healthcare professionals. Dr. Pai, who also oversees the simulation center, uses a METIman Prehospital simulator to guide small groups of students through four trauma scenarios: head injury, pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade and hypovolemic shock. The students practice a team approach to trauma management. He is also leading research on the use of high-fidelity simulation to teach trauma response and care. “The research is focusing on the stress faced by students who go through simulation and the causes of the stress. What is the source of the stress? Are they stressed for the patient, or because they are performing in front of the faculty and their peers?” says Dr. Pai. “We are also studying the long-term knowledge gain. The students run through a simulation and then return to run through the same simulation three weeks later.” The research team has collected data this year, and plans to publish its findings in June or July.
Undergraduate medical students participating in a trauma teaching session on METIman Prehospital in the Clinical Skills Learning Centre at Melaka Manipal Medical College in Malaysia.
Surgical Simulation Introduced at India’s ASICON Conference ore than 600 delegates attended India’s largest annual gathering of surgeons, the ASICON (Annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India) conference, in late December. With a theme of “Surgery Sans Frontiers,” the conference offered lectures, discussions and workshops on the latest advancements in surgery. This year, organizers offered a symposium with a focus on surgical simulation, which is beginning to be adopted in more medical schools nationally. In the photo, Dr. Chintamani, professor and head of department of surgery for Safdarjang Medical, one of the largest government hospitals in India, tests out a CAE Healthcare LapVR simulator at the ASICON conference. He is pictured with ASICON Treasurer Dr. Bakshi and CAE Healthcare representatives Pradeep K. and Praveen Mittal.
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Prairie View A & M University a Second-Year Champion at HPSN STUDENT TEAM WINS 2012 METI CUP FOR NURSING Prairie View A & M University took the HPSN METI Cup trophy home to Texas for the second consecutive year after students Kimberly Eagleton and Julane Crooks won the nursing simulation challenge at HPSN. PVAMU Clinical Assistant Professor Ejim Sule prepared five students for the competition and traveled with them accompanied by two other faculty members, Professors Isaac Smith and Shirley Hutchins. “I like to enter them for the METI challenge competition so that they can see how they fare against other colleges and universities,” says Sule. “When they win the competi-
tion knowing that they are competing against other schools, it means a lot to them and helps them to appreciate the level of education they are receiving here at Prairie View. When we come back, they are energized and they feel very proud to be Prairie View students.” The students prepare during their senior year when they take Adult Health with Sule. In addition to practicing with patient simulators, “We do a lot of critical thinking scenarios in my class,” Sule says. “They have learned that they must expect the unexpected, assess, treat, and when in doubt, ask questions.”
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METI CUP NURSING CHALLENGE WINNERS JULANE CROOKS AND KIMBERLY EAGLETON
“I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and competition. I felt as though the simulation experience was very unique considering it was an emergency setting with no advance notice about the scenario. It was a great way to allow us to use critical thinking skills.” Julane Crooks, 2012 METI Cup Nursing Challenge winner and student nurse, Prairie View A & M University College of Nursing
“I enjoyed the competition as a whole. I learn better by doing and I also learn from my mistakes, two things that the simulated experience was created for. I know that as a nurse, assessment is key, and this scenario was all about assessment, asking questions, and following leads.” Kimberly Eagleton, 2012 METI Cup Nursing Challenge winner and student nurse, Prairie View A & M University College of Nursing
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HPSN 2012 Conference Attracts International Healthcare Simulation Audience CAE Healthcare Hosts First HPSN Conference with METI ore than 1,100 healthcare educators, practitioners and students from 28 countries gathered at the HPSN 2012 conference in Tampa, Florida in late February. Founded by METI in the 1990s, the free annual conference now draws CAE Healthcare’s entire network together to exchange the latest healthcare simulation ideas, research and methods. John Nance, author of “Why Hospitals Should Fly,” delivered the keynote address. A retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and patient safety advocate, Nance spoke about the impact of flight simulation on the airline industry and the philosophy behind crew resource management. “Simulation has not only made us safe over time, but it has changed the way we look at every aspect of training, every aspect of what we do professionally to keep you safe when you are a passenger,” said Nance. He detailed the ways in which the lessons learned from flight simulation can be applied to healthcare to improve team interaction and patient outcomes. “Simulation should be the standard in healthcare,” said Nance. At HPSN 2012, 178 faculty and facilitators presented 148 concurrent sessions on patient, surgical and ultrasound simulation. Some of the most popular sessions incorporated the METI iStan and METIman patient simulators in recreations of teaching scenarios that covered patient safety, emergency response team training, and communication within hospital settings.
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Above, keynote speaker John Nance captivated the packed opening session. Pictured, Marc Parent, President and CEO of CAE with John Nance and CAE Healthcare President Michael Bernstein.
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“Simulation puts us in the position of understanding the humanity involved in a high-risk situation and making it low risk.” — John Nance, HPSN conference keynote speaker and author of “Why Hospitals Should Fly”
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Collin College of McKinney, Texas presented a scenario on "How to Survive the Golden Hour" at HPSN 2012. The Collin College team that traveled to HPSN included EMS, respiratory, surgical technology and nursing students as well as faculty.
The METI Cup Challenge, a critical care skills competition that incorporates real-time patient simulation, drew an enthusiastic crowd in the exhibition hall on the second day. Five student nursing teams and two air medical transport teams competed before their instructors and peers. Kimberly Eagleton and Julane Crooks, nursing students at Prairie View A & M University in Texas, won the METI Cup for nursing, and Sherry Gauthier and David Allison of the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) in Alberta, Canada won the EMS challenge. CAE Healthcare announced the winners of its annual METI Awards for best simulation video at HPSN. This year, seven institutions that employ healthcare simulation training submitted videos, and the winners were chosen online by a popular vote. Russia’s Novosibirsk State Medical University's "Saving the New Year in Siberia" won first place. Cape Fear Community College of North Carolina won second place and Faulkner State
Community College of Alabama took third place honors. The poster research covered leading-edge subjects in simulation for nursing, medicine and emergency response. Alyssa DeJong and Lynn White of Avera McKennan Hospital won first place for their poster presentation on “Using Simulation to Prepare Critical Nurses for the Reality of ICU.” Major Keith Lund and Major Jason Bothwell of Madigan Healthcare System won second place for “Improving Confidence of PAs to Evaluate Blunt Abdominal Trauma.” Dr. Stephen Quintero of Florida State University won the most original research award for his poster on “Simulation as a Healthcare Policy.” The judges awarded honorable mentions to Sallie Beth Todd of Greenville Technical College and to James Reynolds and Dr. Keith Littlewood of the University of Virginia. Visit HPSN.com for a full conference wrap-up, including keynote presentation. Videos can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/METIawards2
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his summer in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Leeds Metropolitan University in partnership with CAE Healthcare is hosting the 6th Annual UK Simulation in Professor Bryn Baxendale, Nursing Education Conference, “International Simulation Standards: The Impact Director of the Trent Simuon Educators” on June 19 and 20, 2012. Building on the success of last year’s lation and Clinical Skills dynamic conference at The University of Surrey, Guildford nurses from all disciCentre (TSCSC) and Presiplines and other allied healthcare professionals will have the opportunity to debate, share dent of the Association for and network simulation as an educational approach in the historic city of Leeds. Simulated Practice in CAE Healthcare will welcome three world class academics as keynotes, Professor Bryn Healthcare (ASPiH), will Baxendale, Director of the Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre (TSCSC), and President of deliver a keynote address. the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) and Professor Judith Ellis MBE, Executive Dean for Health and Social Care at London South Bank University on the first day. Opening the second day will be Dr. Jay K. Ober, National Director of Nursing Operations and Regional Dean of Nursing, Education Affiliates Inc., Maryland, USA. Other conference highlights include Master Classes centred around debriefing, planning and building a simulation centre and setting up OSCEs with a learning managing system. There will also be a product showcase focusing on the latest technology from CAE Healthcare. There are concurrent sessions with poster, oral and interactive workshop sessions using a simulation mannequin. The call for sessions is still open. Educators and simulation facilitators are invited to submit research and scenarios for presentation to like-minded professionals at the conference. To find out more, visit www.hpsn.com.
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Metropolitan Community College Penn Valley of Kansas City, Missouri recently opened a state-of-the-art Health Sciences Institute building with a 10,000-square-foot virtual hospital that serves students studying nursing, emergency medical services, physical therapy and other healthcare services. With six patient areas, the virtual hospital houses 12 patient simulators. MCC-Penn Valley will host the Central Regional HPSN conference in June.
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An Earthquake Strikes a Hospital Zone at CAEST Training
Using simulation, the Medical Education Research Institute (MERI) in Memphis, Tennessee, is offering Department of Defense training to improve the interface between civilian and military operations in the event of a catastrophe requiring aeromedical evacuation. MERI developed the Civilian Aeromedical Evacuation Sustainment Training (CAEST) in partnership with the University of Memphis (UM) and Wright State University National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR). In a recent training session, medical personnel stabilized a METI iStan and METI PediaSIM following an earthquake, and prepared them for military-aided evacuation by ground or air. The final training courses will take place April 24-25, and are open to all levels of healthcare providers, students and administrators nationwide. For information, visit www.meri.org or contact Shirley Brown at sbrown@meri.org or 901-674-4560.
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