Simulation Software Resources.xlsx

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3	Shadow Health https://www.shadowhealth.com/	All years. Geared toward academic programs.	Communication skills, leadership skills, SBAR simulations, documentation, sccored education and empathy items, history taking, health promotion, cultural considerations, single system exams, focused exams, concept labs - examples of real body sounds and realistic, 3D anatomical body models to compare and contrast normal and abnormal findings,	Very interactive. Immediate feedback for students including model answers and documentation. Faculty able to review individual student and class performance on each simulation. Results Book allows for flexible grading strategies. Offers pre and post simulation assignments and comprehensive assessment. Can be mapped to specific course content. Instructional design and training team available to help with sequencing of course work.	Seems it was initially designed for nursing students. They are developing the following: Undergraduate Pediatrics, Undergraduate Maternal Health, Advanced Pathophysiology, Undergraduate Med-Surg, Undergraduate Fundamentals, Undergraduate Community Health		Also includes anatomical concept labs for students to review anatomy and physiology and pharmacology simulations. Might be of use for other medicine departments	Cynthia Mosher
4	Aquifier https://aquifer.org/our-network/subscribers/medical-schools/	All years. Geared toward academic medical programs.	Discipline-specific courses—Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics are foundational courses, key components of many programs’ clinical rotations. Geriatrics, Radiology, and Addiction can be integrated to provide instruction on these topics, or used as individual elective courses. Free courses—Diagnostic Excellence, High Value Care, Culture in Health Care, Medical Home, and Oral Presentation Skills offer case-based learning and skill-building exercises on key topics in healthcare education. WISE-MD (Surgery) provides an interactive enhancement to the surgical course, distributed by Aquifer on behalf of NYU School of Medicine.	Realistic scenarios walk through a complete patient encounter. Covers national curriculum standards. Ready-to-use teaching tools and Educator Guides. Meets LCME standards. Case descriptions featuring case goals and objectives and key teaching points. Supplemental educator resources and tools to blend the cases into traditional clinical and classroom curricula. Integration workshops at national meetings. Reporting to track student progress. Assessment tools including validated summative exams.	I completed one of the free courses: Oral Presentation Skills 01. It appears to be all text-based. Learner reads the case and works through the various steps of approach and management and answers questions.	Pricing tiers are based on total enrollment for your program (pre-clinical through clinical years inclusive).	"95% of US allopathic medical schools are putting Aquifer’s trusted, rigorous clinical learning tools to work for their students. Aquifer is also used in 31 international allopathic medical schools."	Cynthia Mosher
5	DxR Clinician https://dxrgroup.com/healthcare-education-products/dxr-clinician/ Video demo https://youtu.be/TBVoGBRk2zk	All years	Offers 120+ simulated patient cases covering both common problems and presentations that students may not experience in their clinical rotations - taking history, performing physical exam and ordering and reviewing lab tests. Exams provide visualizations and sounds (eg. retina, xray, lung sounds) and student writes their interpretation of what they see or hear. Students propose hypotheses (differential diagnoses) and complete examination based on their hypothesis. Later student writes final diagnosis is submitted with management plan, and orders and document in the patient record	Provides student activity record and scoring for instructor review. Can edit cases for own needs or author your own cases, adding your own graphics and sounds.	Minimal interactivity. See Notes for other product.		Used by medical schools. 3 month trial subscription available. Also available: Integrated Medical/Healthcare Curriculum (IMC) https://dxrgroup.com/healthcare-education-products/integrated-medical-curriculum Interactive, media-rich, convenient: content tutorials to complement any healthcare education curriculum. Modules cover topics such as anatomy, physiology, immunology, histology, pathology, ethics, embryology and basic clinical skills. Must request a demo.	Cynthia Mosher
6	i-Human by Kaplan https://www.i-human.com/virtual-simulation-for-medical-schools/	Potential for years 2-3. Excellent for years 4-5 and interns. Did not find anything for communication skills or ethics. The OMS Distance program http://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/product/vr-medical-nursing-distance-learning/ states "Learners can access flexible, immersive, engaging simulation scenarios wherever they are in the world - either in VR or on screen - to achieve first rate educational outcomes remotely. With libraries of scenarios for students and practicing clinicians across healthcare, OMS Distance support all groups of learners at any stage of their career."	Virtual Patient Encounters - Students interact with virtual patients in a comprehensive patient encounter from history to diagnosis to management plans.	Over 350 graduate cases and over 230 patient “avatars”. Participating avatars including mothers for pediatric patients, spouses for adult patients, etc. Wide range of ages and demographics. Specialty cases including OB, Peds, surgical, rehab, and mental health. Offers 12 cases to use as a formative learning experience or true competency assessment in preparation for clinicals or the Step 2 CS Exam. Provides Auto-Scoring and Analytics, individual student performance - Students and faculty can drill down to view detailed performance information and Group and Cohort Performance		Must request quote but states "Bring the i-Human Patients virtual client encounter experience to your students for as little as $100 per student, per term."		Cynthia Mosher
7	Oxford Medical Simulation http://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/ Brief demo video https://vimeo.com/382434931 Video showing how you interact with VR simulation: https://vimeo.com/309483240	Says it is customisable so may be possible for year 1-3 if we can edit to meet curriculum needs. Excellent for years 4-5 and interns.	Immerive simulation scenarios in virtual reality - Using the latest virtual reality headsets, learners are immersed in virtual scenarios with fully interactive, acutely unwell patients. They must manage the patient as in real life: assessing, instigating treatment and interacting with their interdisciplinary team against the clock. The environment, patient and other team members are fully interactive, with artificial intelligence-driven patient behaviour, adaptive conversation and dynamic physiology. Learners then receive personal feedback, performance metrics and a guided self-reflective debrief to ensure knowledge transfers to practic	Very good realism. Libraries of scenarios inspired by true clinical situations and validated simulation resources. Offers detailed feedback and debriefing. All learning is customizable to ensure institutions meet specific requirements. Analytics and reporting dashboards - Detailed metrics and intuitive dashboards allow learners to monitor and optimize performance and faculty to monitor and assess.		"Doesn't it cost a lot?" "No, in fact in can be a huge cost-saving. We offer a simple and flexible pricing model to allow our VR simulations to be made available to any institution, independent of size or budget."	"Though our software can use any hardware, we provide Oculus Rift to institutions as part of our package. As our VR headsets are consumer-focused they require no training to use."	Cynthia Mosher
8	eTrain http://etrainetc.com	All years	This is a simulation authoring tool. As a subscriber you have unlimited access to any existing simulations but can design your own based on your curriculum.	Extremely customizable. Can create the exact scenarios you need for your students based on your curriculum.	New company with limited existing scenarios to use. If they do not have the specific images you need for your scenario they will create them for you when you provide an image of what you need, for an extra fee. But you can then use this image repeatedly.	Quote given for AU CoM as a Subscribing partner is $25,000 a year, unlimited students.	This is the company providing the free PPE Donning and Doffing simulation	Cynthia Mosher
9	GigX https://www.gigxr.com/	All years	A 3D holographic video of actual standardized clinical patients. The sims are customizable to your curriculum	Allows students to practice visual observation and assessment skills in a setting where the instructor is completely in control of the way the scenario unfolds. Students co-located in a classroom or working remotely may join mixed-reality sessions together. Access sessions on mixed reality headsets plus phones, tablets, laptops and desktops for 3D and 2.5D experiences.				Cynthia Mosher
10	MPathic-VR https://medicalcyberworlds.com/ Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W9qPmOmW1k	All years but specific for communication skills	Empathetic Communication - trains healthcare professionals to master crucial conversations with Virtual Human (VH) characters who express themselves in nuanced and highly believable ways. Learners are challenged to interpret their verbal and non-verbal communication and respond with effective strategies.	Requires no AR or VR vision devides; works on computer or mobile device. dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the learner and the VH. If the learner offers a suboptimal response the VH response increases in intensity, encouraging reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action. Other benefits are the cost effectiveness, repetitive practice capability, standardization of experience for learners in training and OSCE, and students’ training experience favoring the MPathic-VR simulation (Kron et al., 2016).			Not clear if we can custom design simulations	Cynthia Mosher
11	3D systems/Simbionix https://simbionix.com/	Mostly for surgical skills	Custom Simulation, ANGIO Mentor, ARTHRO Mentor, BRONCH Mentor, GI Mentor, LAP Mentor, PELVIC Mentor, PERC Mentor, RobotiX Mentor, SPINE Mentor, URO Mentor, U/S Mentor, HYST Mentor, TURP Mentor, Clinical Validations.	Comprehensive Course Library, Outcome Oriented Training Program, Debriefing Session, Advanced Simulator Reports, complete line of web-based simulators.	requires extensive training for educators, administrators and learners.each simulator covers one objective. High cost		provides a complete solution for training simulation programs, committed to the advancement of clinical performance and optimization of procedural outcomes	Cynthia Mosher
12	Simtics https://www.simtics.com/	2nd and 3rd years	Virtual simulations, 3d anotomy, tests, videos, step by step text guides.	Virtual Learning Easy Access Progress Tracking Cost Effective	Very basic	Affordable prices	A helpful tool for students so they no longer limited to lab time or clinical externships, they can learn and practice procedures anytime, anywhere, on any device.	Cynthia Mosher
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