The International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM) mission is to improve emergency medicine (EM) around the world. Central to this philosophy is specialty development through an emphasis on education. To achieve that goal, the IFEM published manuscripts in 2009 and 2011 describing undergraduate (also known as “medical school”) education and graduate education (also known as “residency tr...

conclusions our results suggest that the personnel in the five participating faculties were highly satisfied with the practical performance of the residents, who were found to hold good attitudes towards the program as a whole. background the goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of intubation skill training involving the use of mannequins on novice anesthesiology residents in a knowled...

Serious games are part of the new emerging world of education environment that is based on sophisticated technology with elements of entertainment. They have been seen as good supplements for supporting the learning processes due to their capability to in‐ crease visualisations and challenge the student creativity. They have the potential to sig‐ nificantly improve training and education activi...

Today, the military increasingly rely on simulators to support training and education. One reason for this is simulators are seen as a cost-effective to achieve realistic training. Modern simulators can replicate almost any aspect of the real world, a development in part driven by the implicit assumption that the better the simulator, the better the training. But does higher fidelity necessaril...

BACKGROUND Having peer-reviewed articles published in medical journals is important for career progression in many medical specialties. Despite this, only a minority of junior doctors have the skills in the area of medical article publishing. The aim of this study was to assess junior doctors' views concerning being involved in medical article publishing and whether they perceive involvement as...

Simulation is spreading – now also for research purposes In recent years simulation in the health sciences has spread around the world 1. More disciplines and professions are engaging in education and training activities using simulation as an educational tool. We gave an overview about the use of simulation in an earlier issue of this publication 2. In this paper we explore the connections bet...

Alzheimer's disease and other related disorders (ADRD) represent a major challenge for health care systems within the aging population. It is therefore important to develop better instruments to assess the disease severity and progression, as well as to improve its treatment, stimulation, and rehabilitation. This is the underlying idea for the development of Serious Games (SG). These are digita...

Serious Games have been used to education and training purposes in several areas. The main purpose of such applications is providing interactive and motivating tools for specific situations. The present paper presents a game to support Geography teaching that uses intelligence based on the Evidence Theory to assess users movements and change the screenplay. It allows decision making to provide ...

Virtual microscopy may be defined as the simulation of microscopy, over a computer network, as opposed to real microscopy using a physical microscope. The term ‘‘microscopy’’ is derived from Greek roots: ‘‘mikros’’ (small) and ’’skopeo’’ (to view). A technical definition for the term ‘‘virtual’’ is a ‘‘simulation of the real thing’’ [1]. Synonyms for virtual microscopy include digital microscop...

WHO Human Resources for Health are leading an international joint special issue which is now accepting papers for joint special issues addressing the critical need for a skilled, sustainable health workforce in the developing world. Submitted articles must fall under the broad theme: "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers" The World Health Report 2006: Working togeth...