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17 Nov, 2016
International Education Week Boston University’s Fifth Annual International Education Week (IEW) which will take place November 14-18, 2016, is just around the corner. All departments, cultural centers, student organizations, and groups are invited to take part. IEW is a joint initiative of the U.S. Departments of State and Education and is celebrated in more than 100…
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Resident Megan Hunt wins Creating Value Challenge Grand Prize

Resident Megan Hunt wins Creating Value Challenge Grand Prize »

24 Oct, 2015
EventsMTB Contest

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.

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Ask the Experts: Is Innovating Within an Academic Medical Center Really Possible?

Ask the Experts: Is Innovating Within an Academic Medical Center Really Possible? »

2 Jun, 2015
Opinion/EditorialUncategorized
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…
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UF Radiology Residents Sharpen Their Skills in a Simulator

UF Radiology Residents Sharpen Their Skills in a Simulator »

1 May, 2015
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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…
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Meet the MedStart Hackathon Winners

Meet the MedStart Hackathon Winners »

10 Feb, 2015
EventsNews
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…
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Google Glass in Medical Education: Tristan Gorrindo’s Perspective

Google Glass in Medical Education: Tristan Gorrindo’s Perspective »

27 Aug, 2014
PeopleUncategorized
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…
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