VCURES Provides Important Lectures at METI’S Annual HSPN Meeting.

Two senior VCURES investigators were selected to provide key lectures and workshops at the 2003 Human Simulator Patient Network (HSPN) meeting sponsored by METI (http://www.meti.com/home.html). The conference was held February 25-28th in Tampa, Florida and is considered the premier user’s conference on medical simulation providing state of the art sessions in human simulation technology and uses. METI is considered the world’s leader in physiologically based human medical simulation.

Dr. Joseph Ornato, senior VCURES investigator and Professor and Chairman of the VCU Department of Emergency Medicine was one of the keynote speakers. His talk entitled, Importance of HPS Training in a High Performance Emergency Care System – The Richmond Model, provided key insights into how HPS training is being incorporated into Richmond’s EMS system (http://www.raaems.org/), which is highly acclaimed as one of the most advanced in the world. Dr. Ornato is the medical director for the system.

Dr. Marsh Cuttino, VCURES Director for Simulation and Medical Informatics and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology provided several preconference and conference workshops. These included:

1) Simulating Weapons of Mass Destruction
2) Resident Airway Competency Evaluation.
3) Using the HPS in Emergency Medicine
4) Using the ECS in Emergency Medicine

Dr. Cuttino also served as the discussion leader for the Emergency Medicine interest group at the conference.

VCURES continues to be at the cutting edge of human simulation for acute care training and is currently engaging in projects examining human factors and performance using simulation. For more information please contact VCURES.