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 ...

The Anesthesiology Simulation Lab (ASL) is a suite of three rooms used by the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program – Nurse Anesthesia and the Anesthesiology Residency Program. Configured to replicate an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hospitalists who participated in online training cases for sepsis and heart failure provided improved care to ...

The 45-year-old patient, Sally Artesaros, sat on the exam table, her body hunched in pain with her palm cradling the right side of her temple. "It's sharp and it's pounding," she said of the migraine ...

Simulation can be used to teach medical students and physicians in a safe environment without risk to an actual patient, Dr. Holmstrom said. The ability to realistically recreate high-risk, as well as ...

They're actors, but they don't perform on stage or in front of cameras. And they don't do drama or comedy. Rather, they specialize in injuries and illnesses. "I've had every disease you can imagine," ...

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" ...

Simulated hospital/medical rooms, virtual cadavers and high-tech engineering equipment are among the new features found at North Central College’s new Dr. Myron Wentz Center for Health Sciences and ...

They’re stressful. They’re tough. They’re the OSCEs: Exams that train you — the medical student — to be the best doctor you can be. OSCE stands for objective structured clinical examination, and it’s ...