The Impact of Medical Simulation and Team Training on Patient Outcomes
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, ensuring the highest quality of patient care is of great importance. To achieve this, healthcare professionals must continually update their skills, enhance their clinical decision-making abilities, and improve teamwork and communication. One innovative approach that has gained prominence in recent years is medical simulation and team training. The evidence is clear: [...]
What are Laerdal’s developments in the Metaverse
Laerdal is leveraging VR and AR techonologies to transform healthcare education. These immersive technologies provide a safe and effective way for healthcare professionals to learn and practice skills. They offer realistic scenarios, enahncing comprehension and skills acquisition. Laerdal’s forward-looking perspective on the Metaverse also presents intriguing possibilities for the future of healthcare education. According to industry studies [...]
SAFETY at the SIMMED National Conference: a good practice of European cooperation for higher education in Emergency Medicine through simulation
The SAFETY project, coordinated by Prof. Gilda Cinnella from the University of Foggia (UniFg), was presented at the conference of the Italian Society for Medical Simulation (SIMMED), held on the 13th October 2023 in Genoa (Italy). The UniFg SAFETY team organised a workshop session within the conference to demonstrate and share some modules of the training material [...]
Hal s5301 is the first humanoid simulator in Europe for training doctors
It is hosted by the University of Trieste: here's how it works and what it can do Hal s5301 is a humanoid robot, or more precisely, a simulator, one of its kind. Furthermore, it is the first of its kind in Europe, precisely located in Trieste, where experts from the Center for Medical Simulation and Advanced Training [...]
SAFETY Project at SIMMED National Conference 2023
The University of Foggia team, supported by the project partners Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Laerdal, will promote the dissemination of the results of the SAFETY project within the SIMMED national conference (12-13 October, Genoa, Italy), through the organization of a workshop entitled "SAFETY: a good practice of European cooperation for higher education in Emergency Medicine [...]
Simulation based education – educational, but also political challenges
Long-term followers of the SAFETY Erasmus+ project, but also of any simulation based educatioon channel, will ost probably have heard of the educational and research challenges specific to this field. But have you also heard of the political challenges? While it is common consensus that students must be educated, the “how” is not so much consensual. Education [...]
