With the growth and expansion of services offered by UNC Health Care around the region, Carolina Air Care expands to meet the greater need for transportation services for critically ill patients. While recruiting new employees, the team has conducted interviews utilizing … Read more

On December 10th, the Twitter #MedEd Chat discussion centered on the use of simulation in medical education. The chat was co-moderated Dr. Ryan Madanick, #MedEd Chat Founder, and UNCsim’s Gene Hobbs. The chat this week asked participants how they use simulation  clerkships, what their … Read more

The 47th annual Student Research Day was hosted by the UNC School of Medicine on November 30th. This day was created to recognize and promote the research efforts of the student body. This year, one of the winning posters of the Harold Pillsbury … Read more

This past weekend, UNCsim faculty Dr Benny Joyner and Mr Gene Hobbs attended the Sadie Abell Advanced Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Fellowship Boot Camp at Johns Hopkins University along with NC Children’s Hospital PICU fellow Dr Dan Lercher. This … Read more

The Medical Alumni Loyalty Fund Newsletter was mailed this week and features an article about the School of Medicine’s Clinical Skills and Patient Simulation Center (CSPSC). The article titled “World of Difference” summarizes how the CSPSC team utilizes funding to … Read more

Dr. Annette Rebel from the University of Kentucky visited the Consortium of Anesthesiology Patient Safety and Experiential Learning (CAPSEL) team this week. Dr. Rebel was awarded one of the four Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) education grants in 2015 with her mentors … Read more

On October 30th, 2015, David Etchison published an article announcing the first round of awards from the UNC School of Pharmacy’s Eshelman Institute for Innovation. Congratulations to Dr Tropsha for his $2 Million award to establish the “Center for Innovation in Pharmacy … Read more

The teams from UNC Rex Healthcare (Rex) and North Carolina Heart & Vascular (NCHV) in Raleigh provided CPR Basics in 2-3 Minutes for visitors to their booth at the NC State Fair. More than 140 volunteers taught compression-only CPR to booth visitors. Compression-only … Read more

The Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship program held their first Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) on October 20th. This OSCE will be the first of two that will be administered each year going forward. The Fellows had three mock clinical experiences that … Read more

The 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) were release today. The guidelines replace the 2010 AHA Guidelines on pediatric Basic Life Support (BLS) for several key issues related to pediatric BLS. UNCsim’s … Read more