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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...
Dr. Luo believes that everything he has learned will be implemented once he returns to Nanjing.
Dr. Binlin Luo, a Surgeon in the Department of Plastic Surgery from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, feels there were many lessons he learned while participating in his Preceptorship. Starting in December 2019, Dr Luo?s areas of...
Dr. JingJing Wang aimed to learn the best practices in simulation and she is leaving with all her goals accomplished!
Our Visiting Scholars from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University are concluding their Preceptorship with us through our Visiting Scholars Program. The final three months have been interesting to say the least, but our scholars have managed...
Developed by our subject matter experts, the new TechSim online course offers forty modules of robust content!
We are pleased to announce our new Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist Training Program (TechSim): Online! Developed by our subject matter experts, TechSim is a training program designed to educate Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialists...
We have demonstrated our ability to adapt our training needs during a pandemic.
Over the last several months we have pivoted our training and evaluation needs to target the growing needs of COVID-19 preparedness while still supporting critical programs not related to COVID-19. Remote Learning & Meetings ? Utilizing...
Dr. Hui Chen hopes to take his simulation knowledge to the next level!
Dr. Hui Chen along with his fellow colleagues came to WISER for a six-month Preceptorship that began in December 2019. Dr. Chen is a Pediatrician at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University in Jiangsu, China. At present, the hospital is...
Dr. Lin Wang continues on her journey in the Visiting Scholars Program!
We are excited to have Dr. Lin Wang as a Preceptor through our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Lin Wang joins us from the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China, where she is an attending doctor of Reproductive Medicine. Over the past...
Tom Dongilli and John Lutz contributed to SSH SimSeries and SSH Open Forum Discussions
During the COVID-19 pandemic WISER Director of Operations Tom Dongilli and Director of Information Technology (IT) John Lutz were asked by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) to contribute to their SSH SimSeries and SSH Open Forum Discussions. Both...
Lecturer and Associate Senior Doctor, Dr. Wang JingJing, explores simulation teaching during the Visiting Scholars Program.
WISER is excited to have several Visiting Scholars participating in our Visiting Scholars Program from the Second Affiliated Hospital Nanjing Medical University in China. Dr. Jingjing is one of those scholars who is currently studying at WISER for six months....
Dr. Wang focused her studies on debriefing techniques, assessment tools, and course development during her Preceptorship.
We would like to thank Dr. Hui Wang for studying with us through our Visiting Scholars Program. Dr. Wang joined us from China-Japan Friendship Hospital of Beijing, China, where she practices as an Intensive Care Medicine doctor. During her time in Pittsburgh,...
WISER Spreads Patient Safety Solutions Globally
Greetings Friends, I hope this message finds you well. I have just returned from Sao Paulo, Brazil where I had the honor and pleasure to serve as the keynote speaker for the Latin American Congress of the Simulation Users’ Network (SUN). The enthusiasm and...
WISER Promotes Safar Symposium and New Patient Safety Report
Every spring, the WISER team looks forward to hosting the annual Safar Symposium! The Safar Symposium gives us an opportunity to recognize leading work in the realm of healthcare and promote simulation-based education programs to support patient safety initiatives....
Using IT Tools to Manage Manikin Maintenance
At WISER, we have approximately 70 manikins across our main facility and 18 satellite locations. To ensure optimal performance and longevity, we aim to perform preventative maintenance (PM) on each manikin twice a year. Keeping track of all these tasks can be quite...
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,...
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