Nov. 8—Amy Pyatt, of Joplin, never pictured herself becoming an actress, but her part-time job posing as a sick patient at Kansas City University-Joplin has helped dozens of medical students gain ...

Medical students who practiced on a patient simulator before assisting in real-life vaginal deliveries scored significantly higher on their final examinations than did students receiving a lecture ...

With an ultimate goal of patient safety and clinical excellence for all our healthcare learners, the Simulation Core employs various validated simulation methods to ensure realistic learning ...

Karri Livingston remembers the “Seinfeld” episode with Kramer as a simulated patient. It still makes her laugh. She began as a simulated patient at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in ...

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Implementing a quality improvement curriculum for medical oncology residents: A pilot study at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre. Background: Medical educators have adopted simulation-based exercises ...

Many types of simulation based training are available for use, separately or together as part of a specialized curriculum that is developed to meet specific goals and objectives for health care ...

Despite the textbooks, lectures and study sessions, future health professionals can face many unknowns during their first interactions with patients. Will they ask the right questions? Will they know ...

The Clinical Simulation Center at the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing on the University of Wyoming campus houses quite a variety of activity and resources: Skills Lab Simulations: "Low-Fidelity" ...

This piece is part of the DrexelNow series showcasing "A Day in the Class" for some of Drexel University's most interesting and impactful courses. In the control room before the quarterly Disaster ...