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Day in the Life of an Anesthesiologist Workshop

October 21, 2019

On October 20th, a team from the UNC Anesthesia Department put on a “Day in the Life of an Anesthesiologist” workshop at the American Society of Anesthesiologists annual scientific meeting. You can read the paper on the family day events … Read more

PQCNC Labor Support Team at Regional Meeting

May 8, 2019

On May 8, The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC) team took labor support to a regional meeting at Vidant Health. They team explained and showed how as much as as a neonatal birth is very medical, most do … Read more

VR to Address Human Health Challenges

January 30, 2018

On January 26th, Dr. Jason Franz from the Joint UNC-CH and NCSU Biomedical Engineering Department presented with a team of Virtual Reality (VR) experts from around the Triangle to provide an overview of resources available within the UNC System for research, … Read more

World Sepsis Day 2017

September 27, 2017

September is Sepsis Awareness Month and on the 26th IHQI hosted a World Sepsis Day event in the Children’s Hospital Lobby. Thank you to UNC Children’s Simulation Committee members Ms Amy Selimos and Ms Dian Gulick who took the time to … Read more

POCUS at AMA Student Led-Leadership Conference

August 11, 2017

This past week, three UNC Medical Students attended the American Medical Association (AMA) Student Led-Leadership Conference in Ann Arbour, Michigan to present their development and successful pilot of a fully integrated pre-clinical ultrasound curriculum. Our students, Katie Butler, Lacey English, and Stephanie Sun … Read more

Dental Students Get A Lesson in Empathy

July 10, 2017

On July 6th, Leah Asmelash published an article in North Carolina Health News about the School of Dentistry’s poverty simulation. Third-year dental students spend eight weeks going out into communities around the state and treating patients, many from low-income families, … Read more

Using Simulation to Assess Ethical Skills

May 30, 2017

Arlene M. Davis, JD, RN of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Department of Social Medicine was awarded one of the 2017-18 AHEC Campus Innovation Grants. Her project titled “Using Simulation to Assess Ethical Skills in the Context of ACGME … Read more

Virtual Reality in Fall Prevention

April 21, 2017

UNC Hospitals’ Mark Derewicz published an article on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University study which found evidence that virtual reality (VR) can be useful in detecting balance impairments early as well as possibly reversing … Read more