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ModalityOctober 15, 202412 More ‘Must-Know’ Healthcare Simulation Key Terms
Continuing our helpful series of key term breakdowns from “11 More Key Terms to Help Your Healthcare Simulation Program Develop…
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Virtual RealitySeptember 12, 2024Simulated VR Training Improves Surgical Training by 130% & Other VR Sim Updates
Moving at ludicrous speed, Virtual Reality applications are continue to make huge impacts across the entire field of Surgical Training…
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Laerdal MedicalJune 3, 2025Two Major Corporation Acquisitions Changes Healthcare Simulation Industry Landscape
This week two major acquisitions have occurred which will forever change the healthcare simulation industry: International renowned Laerdal Medical acquired…
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Professional DevelopmentDecember 8, 2025Leading Nurse Educators Launch Free ‘Essentials of Clinical Simulation’ Online Course
Suzie Kardong-Edgren, Professor and Director of the Regional Research and Innovation in Simulation Education (RISE) Center at Robert Morris University…
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Virtual RealitySeptember 5, 2024Epic Games Supports Precision OS: Orthopedic Surgery Training in VR Using Unreal Engine
Orthopedic surgery is no game. Get it right, and a patientโs life can be transformed for the better. Get it…
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Industry NewsSeptember 16, 2024The Cocoanut Grove Fire: The Tragedy that Changed Emergency Simulation
On Saturday 28th November 1942, when the Second World War was raging across much of Europe, North Africa, Asia and…
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Medical ShipmentJanuary 8, 2026Why Every Nursing Simulation Program Needs to Consider the BD Pyxis MedStation ES
Editor’s Note: The team from Medical Shipment shared with us the compelling article below explaining why every nursing simulation program…
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Virtual RealitySeptember 5, 2024How VR is Changing Healthcare Education & Training: Latest News
Scouring the web for the best medical simulation content we have come across numerous articles in the past month which…
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Scenario DesignSeptember 16, 2024How to Develop a Successful Large Scale IPE Simulation Event
While developing Interprofessional Education (IPE) can present a series of unique challenges, developing a large scale IPE training event beFacilitation…
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UPMC WISERJanuary 9, 2026UPMC’s WISER Simulation Center Celebrates 25 Years of Service!
In 2019, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)’s Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) Center celebrates…
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PCSJanuary 9, 2026VERA Shows Us the Future of Healthcare Simulation Communications Training @IMSH2019: VR Patients with AI
Over the last three days, thousands of healthcare simulation champions from around the world came together at IMSH 2019 to…
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ConferencesSeptember 5, 2024IMSH 2019 Day 1 Megathread – Opening & Sharot Keynote Live Stream
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare 2019 opens today in San Antonio Texas to…
