In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, doctors are miniaturized and injected into a patient’s blood stream where they attempt a tricky surgical procedure. If you’ve ever been to Disney’s Epcot Center in Florida, you may have taken the nauseating thrill ride. That concept is now leaving the realm...
New Modules Should Bridge the Education Gap Between the Classroom and the OR UPDATE: Read the PeriopSim Periop 101 - Pilot Results (Denver, Colo.) February 25, 2016 --The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has added PeriopSim™, a new simulated learning module, to Periop 101 in a...
Conquer Mobile, Simulation Training Specialist, Announces that PeriopSim Has Been Selected as the Simulation Technology for the ‘100 Nurses’ Research Study into the Effectiveness of Simulation Training for Perioperative Nurses. The Study is Being Led by Dr. David Clarke, Head of Neurosurgery at Dalhousie University/Nova...
Developers in Canada are creating interactive virtual spaces to help surgeons train for complex operations. The technology immerses doctors in an OR environment and connects the surgeon's real hands to a virtual reality version of the patient's body. According to one resident, the placement of...
A recent blog post, “The 10 Biggest Breakthroughs in the Science of Learning” sparked an animated discussion here about the design and effectiveness of medical training. It raised some compelling questions. How do these principles apply to medical simulation training? What gamification elements will work...
