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. Curtis Cole is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Weill Cornell Medicine, where he is responsible for the Samuel J. Wood Library, and the core IT infrastructure and services that support the research, clinical, education, and administrative functions of...
3D printing – the production of three dimensional objects by the sequential addition layers of a building material atop each other according to a pattern – has been around for some time now, and 3D printers are being used today...
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...
In a podcast recorded during the “Digital Education and Strategies for Implementing the Flipped Classroom” conference at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar in October 2017, Mr. Sa’ad Laws talked to Dr. Traci Wolbrink about her experiences in medical education, OPENPediatrics,...
IGHPE’s latest podcast features Dr. Janice Palaganas discussing the role of interprofessional simulation training programs in creating reflective medical practitioners. Dr. Palaganas’s interest in teamwork and simulation training began with her PhD at Loma Linda University examining healthcare simulation as...
"Wiki-editing" is the writing and editing of Wikipedia pages. The fact that almost anyone can edit a Wikipedia page is one of the criticisms often aimed at the giant online encyclopedia. In IGHPE’s latest paper, Dr Amin Azzam reflects on...
We’re pleased to report that IGHPE Editorial Board member Prof Elizabeth Armstrong has just received the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Services in Medical Education by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Considered the AAMC’s most prestigious honour, the award...
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...
Progress of medicine and, together with it, the wellbeing of patients depend on creative minds. Patel and Chaikof, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School, alert us to the fact that even modern educational tools—problem-based learning, the ‘flipped classroom’, and so on—mostly...
