On April 6th, the UNC Health Care team reported on the expansion of Air Care occurring over the last year and their most recent milestone. “A little over two years ago, UNC Carolina Air Care launched a new orientation program … Read more

On April 1st, UNC School of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics Director of Simulation Mr Gene Hobbs presented an overview of simulation activities at the 6th Annual Animal Law Symposium. The Animal Law Symposium is hosted at the UNC School of Law … Read more

The 2017 Innovation Pilot Awards were announced on March 23rd and a team from Otolaryngology and Computer Science was selected. Their project entitled “Development of Augmented Reality Applications to Improve Safety and Efficiency in the Operating Room” will receive funds to support this … Read more

“Every year the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) Meeting brings residents, researchers and physician educators together to share internal medicine advances and connect with colleagues. This year it was UNC’s turn to showcase exceptional faculty … Read more

As March arrives, many of our #UNCsim learners transition to their next phase of training. School of Medicine learners prepare to move from the foundation phase into their application phase. They covered many skills that will assist them with their … Read more

The Department of Pediatrics and School of Medicine hosted an event for some of UNC’s scholar athletes earlier this month. The teams concentrated on execution of patient care while utilizing TeamSTEPPS methodology. Check out the previous article from the session in November.

At the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) 17th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) meeting in Orlando, the UNC Anesthesia team was recognized with the top research abstract award. Stiegler M, Martinelli S, Chen F, Arora H, Hobbs … Read more

This week the School of Medicine Clinical Skills and Patient Simulation Center welcomes Jeff McQueen to their team. Mr. McQueen joins the team as a training specialist for the standardized patient (SP) program. Mr. McQueen has been an SP for UNCsim since 2014. … Read more

On January 23rd, the Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery brought together residents from both programs to pilot an interdisciplinary critical event simulation. The residents assembled in the Department of Surgery’s Clinical Learning and Research (CLeAR) Center to engage in this … Read more

UNCsim’s own Dr. Alice Chuang was recently part of a team that published a survey of clerkship directors for Obstetrics and Gynecology in US medical schools. The article, published in the BioMed Central Medical Education open access journal on Dec 16, … Read more