3D Printing: The Future of Nursing and Clinical Education »
The use of 3D printing could create cost-effective, quickly constructed and rapidly innovative products. But how this technology will disrupt and transform the fields that it touches remains unclear. Healthcare and education are hold some of the greatest potential for 3D printing. But what are the practical advantages and foreseeable weaknesses of this amazing…
Global Health Symposium »
17 Nov, 2016
Resident Megan Hunt wins Creating Value Challenge Grand Prize »
The final pitch-off event in the Creating Value Challenge was held last night at the University of San Francisco School of Medicine in front of a sell-out crowd of 130 physicians, trainees and interested members of the public.
Ask the Experts: Is Innovating Within an Academic Medical Center Really Possible? »
At MedTech Boston, we spend a lot of time thinking - and writing - about the best places for healthcare innovation to occur. Is it within the private sector? Maybe inside an incubator that's funded by a larger organization? Or perhaps healthcare innovation is best catalyzed within an academic medical center. Innovators tend to disagree…
UF Radiology Residents Sharpen Their Skills in a Simulator »
The University of Florida Medical Campus. Photo via med.ufl.edu. This story originally appeared on Wing of Zock. The University of Florida College of Medicine is riding the trend of gamification in medical education, developing a new, real-time training simulation for radiology residents akin to a flight simulator. The program, “Simulation in…
Meet the MedStart Hackathon Winners »
Team SimRV discusses options for simulation solutions at MedStart. All photos via Facebook. How do you hack medical education? Over the course of 36 hours, 18 teams brainstormed technological innovations to solve problems in medical education at the MedStart hackathon, run by students in the MD/MBA program at the Tufts School…
Google Glass in Medical Education: Tristan Gorrindo’s Perspective »
Google Glass photo via KevinMD. Tristan Gorrindo is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. As with many medical professionals, he has big hopes for Google Glass - but says that those hopes may be a ways off when it comes…
