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CAEP FEI | Emergency Department Ultrasound Simulator (edus2)

In Featured Education Innovations (FEI) by Paul Olszynski8 Comments

Dr. Bowles is an avid simulation enthusiast. She enjoys adding an extra edge to her cases by adding an agitated family member or an unhelpful consultant, or by integrating images of chest radiographs and electrocardiograms. Recently, she has had the idea of integrating ultrasound images but has been limited by her presentation software to either use still images or embed a video file to play asynchronously with her learners’ use of the ultrasound probe, neither …

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Edutainment: It’s Called a Lecture Theatre for a Reason

In Featured by Paul Olszynski4 Comments

“Are your simulations that good?” my wife joked as we stepped out of Star Tours (a pretty fantastic space flight simulator at EuroDisney). I pause…  “They’re a close second of course. Well, maybe a distant second, close third? It’s different, right?” As the day went on, more questions kept popping up in my mind.  Just how good are our simulation sessions? Star Tours was hugely entertaining (hard not to like flying a spaceship) …

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A Pictorial Approach to Ultrasound in Shock

In Medical Concepts by Paul Olszynski6 Comments

I just finished preparing an introductory talk on shock & ultrasound. Ultrasound in shock in 50 minutes! After having struggled considerably with the breadth of the topic, i struggled even more with the summary. How does one sum up such a huge topic? In the end, I decided to go with a picture (we all know the saying). Learning theories suggest that in order for a person to learn something new, that new …