New UCF Lecture Series Focuses On Technology, Simulations In Medical Education, USA

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Article Date: 18 Aug 2007 - 1:00 PDT

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Exploring ways that technology can help produce better medical doctors is the focus of a new lecture series kicking off at the University of Central Florida next week.

Dr. Richard M. Satava, a Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center and Special Assistant in Advanced Surgical Technologies at the US Army Medical Research and Material Command, will speak at 10 a.m. on Aug. 21 in Partnership II building at 3100 Technology Pkwy, in the Central Florida Research Park next to the UCF campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Satava is a leading advocate for using technology to help produce the next generation of medical professionals. He's written dozens of books about how it can be used in medicine. The doctor's career includes a tour on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Committee on Health, Food and Safety. He is currently a member of the Emerging Technologies and Resident Education, and Informatics committees of the American College of Surgeons.

The lecture series is sponsored by UCF's Institute for Simulation & Training (IST), the UCF College of Medicine and the Orlando-based National Center for Simulation (an industry association).

College of Medicine Dean Deborah German and IST Director Randall Shumaker are collaborating to build simulation technology into the curriculum of the new college. They have hopes that the lecture series will raise awareness of simulation's role in medicine and stimulate an exchange of new ideas. IST already has a history of research in the area of technology and medicine, notably its work with the U.S. Army to link the human patient simulator with battlefield simulations to train medics right along with other troops. Recently the institute has conducted medical trials to evaluate simulation use to treat brain-injured patients.

National Center for Simulation executive director Russ Hauck sees the series as one step toward building a base for growth in the medical simulation industry.

http://www.ist.ucf.edu

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