Michael Dell, president and CEO of Dell, announced today that the company is making a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to support the launch of UB’s new Institute for Healthcare Informatics.…

Radiologic technologists (RT) are another set of specialists who use continuing education to stay on top of rapid industry advancements. Whether it’s complex examination techniques, equipment protocols or novel radiation therapy treatments, there is no shortage of discovering something new for technologists. …

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday announced the award of $16.8 million to support 27 Public Health Training Centers at accredited schools of public health across the country. …

The future trend of e-learning method in medical education is greatly influenced by major trends in education industry i.e. (1) continuous change in Healthcare environment inclusive of advances in biomedical sciences and diagnoses & management of diseases, financing, organization, and delivery of health care services; (2) Adoption of emerging communication, simulation, and information technology in …

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding $159.1 million in grants to shore up the nation's healthcare workforce, with $106 million of it going to support all levels of nursing education.…

Task Based Learning or TBL is different to a PBL in that the learning would be centering on a real task that is to be carried out by an individual at a place where the students are expected to function following their training.…

The new program aims to impart critical information to make for an easier transition. The residents learn, for instance, from the episode with propofol — the milky liquid — that they shouldn’t use it for anesthesia induction when a patient is in shock. As the instructor advises later in the episode, it could kill the …

Improving the quality and safety of medical care in the U.S. will require improvements in medical education. This article lists five “must haves” for medical education curricula along with seven recommendations from the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation’s report, “Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Care.” The author reviews the …

In January 2009, I attended ASTD TechKnowledge®, which emphasizes developing and managing e-learning. During the conference, I was introduced to a vast array Web 2.0 concepts and constructs that were new to me, including Twitter, wikis, social bookmarking tools such as delicious.com for; social networking sites like LinkedIn and Ning; and such RSS readers as …

Don't look now, but the world of continuing medical education (CME) as we know it is about to change. The way you think about CME, the way you participate in it, how we measure the effectiveness of it, and how it is funded are all changing. These changes have been in motion for several years …

When Dr. Ryan Thompson, an internist, was a medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston a few years ago, he worried that he and his fellow trainees weren’t learning about the cost of medical treatments, the financing of health care and the impact of high medical bills on their patients.…

The federal government's mine safety agency is not properly tracking the retraining of its veteran inspectors and is facing a mounting backlog of appeals of health and safety violations from mining companies, according to concerned government auditors and lawmakers. …

Robotic-assisted surgeries can be good for patients and good for the hospital's bottom line, but a hang up for medical staffs is that it's not easy to train surgeons on these systems.…

Today's medical students are not learning enough about patient safety, the importance of teamwork and communication, and safety science, according to a new white paper released by the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation on Wednesday.…