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An update on WISER from Director, Dr. Paul Phrampus.
Greetings friends, I hope this issue of the newsletter finds you well. This month, during Healthcare Simulation Week there was again a fervent excitement that hopefully reignited passion about the essential need for simulation training and health care. From...
Healthcare Simulation Week took place September 14-18, 2020.
Each year the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) holds Healthcare Simulation Week in the month of September. This weeklong event allows simulation centers from around the world to celebrate professionals in simulation and their centers. Healthcare...
Dr. Jiehua Feng bids farewell after her year long Fellowship!
We bid farewell to our Visiting Scholar Dr. Jiehua “Angela” Feng after a yearlong Fellowship with WISER. Dr. Feng began her journey in September 2019 and concluded her Fellowship by finding her beacon and moving on to a new beginning in simulation. Dr. Feng...
“Policies and Procedures: Key Considerations” written by WISER Director of Operations featured in new book.
Turn to page one hundred fifteen (115) in the Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Program & Center Development book and you will notice a familiar name listed for Chapter 16- ?Policies and Procedures: Key Considerations?. It is none other than our Director...
Visiting Scholar Fellow, Dr. Feng, hopes to collaborate with WISER when she returns home.
We bid farewell to our Visiting Scholar Dr. Jiehua ?Angela? Feng after a yearlong Fellowship with WISER. Dr. Feng began her journey in September 2019 and concluded her Fellowship by finding her beacon and moving on to a new beginning in simulation. Dr. Feng...
WISER is excited to welcome Christa Brown as our Director of Educational Development
WISER is excited to welcome Christa Brown as our Director of Educational Development. Christa earned an MA in Education - Instructional Technology, and is well versed in adult learning best practices as well as online course development efforts. Beyond her...
WISER is excited to welcome Christa Brown as our Director of Educational Development.
WISER is excited to welcome Christa Brown as our Director of Educational Development. Christa earned an MA in Education - Instructional Technology, and is well versed in adult learning best practices as well as online course development efforts. Beyond her...
Enthused and excited to share his knowledge with his peers, Dr. Chen finishes his Preceptorship and returns Nanjing.
Over the years we have hosted several simulation enthusiasts from Nanjing Medical University at WISER ? with each Visiting Scholar, we have helped them to learn more about simulation and share their knowledge with their colleagues at their home institution. Dr....
Visiting Scholars Dr. Lin Wang reflects on her time at WISER and focuses on what lies ahead.
?To be honest, at first, we did not have too much knowledge in simulation. You lead us into the world as a simulation educator,? Dr. Lin Wang stated during her closing presentation. ?You break the complicated knowledge into simple thing so all of us can...
Patient Safety Report highlights our previous 24 months in education and simulation improving healthcare.
WISER is proud to present our report highlighting our work on Patient Safety efforts over the previous 24 months. WISER has a long history of creating simulation-based solutions directly aimed at patient safety efforts. As a core part of our mission, we believe that...
WISER’s Simulation Specialists Support Patient Safety Initiatives
Our operations specialists are instrumental in ensuring all classes run smoothly by programming and running scenarios, helping instructors run realistic simulation-based training events, and performing maintenance and repairs on simulators. Over the past few months,...
New Course: Central Line – ANES VR
One of our newest courses, Central Line - ANES VR, utilizes virtual reality to teach students enrolled in the anesthesia bootcamp how to properly place central lines. Just like simulation, virtual reality can be a great tool to help train, educate, and improve the...
Xiangya Scholars visit WISER
Through the collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and China's prestigious Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, WISER was able to show visiting Xiangya Scholars a variety of procedures on our simulators and task trainers!...
WISER showcases one-of-a-kind Radiology Contrast Reaction course
WISER and UPMC physicians showed great teamwork and collaboration at the 2024 Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Breast Imaging Symposium in Montreal, Canada! This symposium gives radiologists the opportunity to improve interpretive accuracy, apply new technologies, and...
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