Today, May 12, is International Nurses’ Day, a day on which we celebrate the birth of Florence Nightingale and recognize the integral role of nursing in healthcare. To mark this day, we want to revisit some of our past content...
Dr. Joseph Kvedar is Vice President of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, and Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School. He is also co-chair of the American Medical Association’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group, and lead author on two recent...
Dr. Elizabeth Borycki is the Director of the Social Dimensions of Health and Health and Society programs and a Professor in the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. In 2017, she was...
Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Dr, Kraft was a keynote speaker at the IGHPE 2018 meeting in Kuala Lumpur,...
In our latest podcast, Dr. Mohamed Elshazly of Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q) discusses a number of the innovative projects in which he is involved, ranging from crowdsourcing CPR, a relational database of disease manifestations, and the use of...
Dr. Randi Diamond, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital, describes her work and reflects on the nature of palliative care the latest addition to IGHPE's podcast series. Dr....
IGHPE’s Third Annual Conference in Shanghai, China examined the theme of “Innovative Strategies for Developing the Future Healthcare Workforce.” Podcasts from IGHPE Shanghai 2017, featuring interviews with speakers engaged in healthcare education in China or technological innovations in medical education, are now available...
In China, like in Western countries, a shift towards competency-based medical education3 (CBME) is underway. What is CBME about? Essentially, it evaluates less what’s in physicians’ heads and emphasizes more what they are able to do with their knowledge. CBME...
Nurses often are practical innovators—they find solutions for their patients in everyday practice. A platform such as MakerNurse documents do-it-yourself improvements of patient care. However, when it comes to more far-reaching innovations, ideas are amiss or don’t prevail. The entrenched...
For airplane pilots, simulator training is a longstanding way of training. Taking over the responsibility for hundreds of people ten kilometers up in the air requires previous practice in a safe environment. In health professional education, simulated or standardized patients—humans...
