By Pegah Nomanfar Last weekend Ingenuity Labs and UP360 hosted the “Next Generation of Medical Simulation Hackathon.” Students from diverse backgrounds, in 16 teams, presented their ideas using a technical and scientific approach to solve the challenge: “Advanced fidelity of medical simulators or task trainers in a way that will allow learners in healthcare to …
As a teaching strategy, simulation-based training has been around a long time. From aviation and space flight to the military, from law to policing, simulation has been used to create learning environments that reflect the real world, without putting the learner or other participants at risk. A multidisciplinary group of faculty and post-doctoral researchers from …