Dr. Jeff Wiseman, an Internal Medicine physician at the Royal Victoria Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (RVH-MUHC), assistant professor of Medicine at McGill University and core member of the McGill Centre for Medical Education, is currently developing a serious medical smartphone-based game called The Deteriorating Patient with the aim of helping medical students […]

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Funding is needed for the training lab being built at the Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital. AHS Consultant, Jill is responsible for the future simulation centre and says “There will be every different shape and size of mannequin.” Jill adds “We can do any simulation the educators can dream up depending on the learning needs of […]

As Canadian educators who have worked with simulation-based pedagogy for many years we read with interest the editorial ‘http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.12891/abstract” target=”_blank”>Living dolls and nurses without empathy’. The authors of the article expressed a concern that all of us working in simulation have encountered: namely that a manikin – or any simulator, for that matter – cannot […]

Our students are voicing strong support for the continuation and expansion of the use of simulation. This pilot project certainly inspired me to find out if simulation can be a potential answer for teaching the art and science of social work practice. (Blog post) (Source: carleton.ca)

Roughly five million Canadians are affected by dyslexia, a learning disability which can make reading and writing a challenge. Swedish web developer Victor Widell found a way to show just how much of a struggle it can be for some people. He used computer code to scramble the letters in a passage of text based […]

Oxford Brookes University in the UK has devised a training program to support people with dementia. The university’s Dementia Simulation Training provides commissioners, healthcare professionals, and care staff with an increased awareness of what people living with dementia experience on a daily basis. (Source: carehome.co.uk)

Confederation College students get a taste of real-world emergency situations. Those training to be paramedics, police officers, firefighters, nurses and radiation technologists teamed up in a practical emergency scenario for the second Inter-Professional Education Day. (Source: tbnewswatch.com)

Today, Ontario celebrated the opening of the Mechatronics Simulation and Demonstration Centre at Seneca College, a first-in-Ontario facility that will help students develop the cutting-edge skills they need to find jobs in the province’s manufacturing sector. (Source: ontario.ca)

Could the province’s first responders and hospitals adequately handle two mass casualty emergencies? That’s what will be determined Thursday (Feb. 18) at Centennial College’s Morningside campus where 500 volunteers will stage a subway crash and a mass shooting as part of a training and testing exercise. (Source: Scarborough Mirror)

The man in the hospital bed is a real dummy and nursing student Josie Smith knows it. He’s coughing and complaining a lot about how he can’t breathe. But Smith throws her training into practice and does everything she can to make this “mannequin with a voice” comfortable — checking his oxygen supply and monitors […]

On Wednesday, February 3, the auditorium of the Michener Institute was full with healthcare, education, and government leaders to mark an historic launch of a new “Made in Ontario” healthcare education model in Canada: The Michener Institute of Education at UHN. “This is a first of its kind merger in Canada, where two leading institutions […]

It was an exciting day at Conestoga College as the school celebrated the grand opening of their new Motz Pre-Hospitalization Laboratory. The state-of-the-art lab is located at the Cowan Health Sciences Centre at Conestoga’s Doon campus, and was supported through a leadership gift provided by the Motz family. (Source: 570 News)

Competency-based training is the new wave in medical education and Quebec’s medical schools are gearing up to expand their use of this type of medical training for residents, which has already been introduced in family medicine programs in the province. (Source: Montreal Gazette)

A group of Toronto doctors have successfully performed a hand and forearm transplant — the first in Canada — paving the way for the specialized procedure to be offered in the country. (Source: CTV News)

Eight nursing students packed themselves into a sparsely appointed recreational vehicle Tuesday afternoon in the shadow of Avera St. Mary’s Hospital. They were a collection of traditional and nontraditional students from all over central South Dakota. And each one of them was preparing for a chance to work hands-on with a patient recovering from a […]

Fifty emergency situations played out at Fanshawe College Saturday. It was all part of its annual Trauma and Treatment weekend, an inter-professional simulation event involving 300 participants from the paramedic, nursing, emergency telecommunications and other programs. More than 50 police officers, fire and paramedic volunteered for the day. (Source: CTV News London)

With the help of The Michener Institute’s state-of-the-art simulation facilities, researchers at University Health Network (UHN) are looking into the effectiveness of simulation training to help practitioners identify and manage errors that occur in clinical practice. (Source: Michener Institute)

St. Clair College Thames Campus is thrilled to announce that it has received two new Simulation (SIM) mannequins to enhance training for students in the Nursing and Practical Nursing programs. The total value of the equipment is $45,000. (Source: St. Clair College)

The province showed off a new mobile simulator today that will help train emergency workers in small and rural communities. The Emergency Health Services Mobile Simulation is the first and so far only vehicle in Atlantic Canada that will act as a mobile training platform for health professionals across the province. (Source: The Signal)

McGill University announced on Wednesday a new name and vision that will position the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning at the forefront of simulated training in the health sciences. Thanks to a $7.5 million gift from Arnold and Blema Steinberg, the Centre will be expanding its facilities, enhancing its technologies and broadening its […]

Eleven years after the release of an eye-popping study showing 185,000 Canadian patients suffer unintended harm while in hospital, a followup http://linkis.com/ihpme.utoronto.ca/20/EhQ8G” target=”_blank”>report reveals progress on improving patient safety has been slow. (Source: Toronto Star)

Queen’s University will be the first institution in Canada to adopt competency-based training for all its medical residents, education that emphasizes the skills residents gain rather than the time they spend doing hospital rotations. (Source: The Globe and Mail)

Medical student Ludwika Wodyk fumbles her way slowly down the stairs, her movements encumbered by heavy strapping around her limbs and body, her vision distorted by special goggles. She is one of a group of medical students in Poland being given the chance to experience first-hand how it can feel to be an ageing patient. […]