London’s Middlesex University has bought five VR headsets so that student nurses can train in a virtual hospital ward. The university bought the devices from Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS). It follows the purchase of a four-bed simulation ward... Read more
Scotland’s MIME Technologies has produced a device which it claims will revolutionise in-flight medical care for millions of passengers. It’s team of physiologists, technologists and aviation medicine specialists have created Aiber, a... Read more
Unitek Learning is expanding to Eagle Gate College campuses in Boise and Idaho Falls. Eagle Gate plans to offer medical assisting and nursing programs at both locations. The Idaho Board of Nursing recently gave Unitek initial approval to create nursing... Read more
Rural communities represent 41 percent of Kentucky’s population, and yet only 17 percent of the state’s primary care physicians work in rural areas. In addition, with only 15 geriatric medicine specialists serving the Commonwealth, older adults... Read more
Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher The recent issue of MT will, sadly, be the last for the foreseeable future. We will continue to monitor the healthcare sector to find evidence and demonstrated desire of the sector to improve the lot of... Read more
SIMETRI was chosen by Laerdal Medical to produce “trauma limbs” to complement the high-fidelity, full-body patient simulators they delivered to the Department of the Army. Laerdal’s contract provides new manikins to the U.S. Army Medical Simulation... Read more
