Day in the Life of an Anesthesiologist Workshop
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
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
UNC-MAHEC Simulation Grant Awarded to Department of Surgery
Timothy Farrell, MD and Marco Patti, MD receive UNC-MAHEC Simulation Grant. You can read more about the grant here.
Validity of Simulation-Based Assessment for ACGME Milestone Achievement
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s Journal released an article on the anesthesia residency milestone evaluation validity assessment ahead of print. This award winning project has lead to the development of many other milestone projects including the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship … Read more
VR to Address Human Health Challenges
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 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
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
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
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
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