UNMC will be hosting an iEXCEL℠ Expo, showcasing the advanced world of cutting-edge medical training, education and simulation today at the Sorrell Center.
The open house runs from 9 to 11:30 a.m., and again from 1 to 4 p.m., in the Sorrell Center, Room 1012, on the Omaha campus.
Ruben to speak today
Adam Ruben, Ph.D., author of the popular book, “Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School” will present at 2 p.m. in the Durham Research Center Auditorium. Dr. Ruben also will perform a second show in the evening, “Public Perception of Science: Lessons from a Dead Sheep” at 7 p.m. in the Sorrell Center, Room 1005.
Faculty, staff and students will have an opportunity to get their hands on the most advanced and sophisticated medical training tools in the world including the following:
- Ibench – View and interact with content in an immersive 3D environment while motion tracking allows you to view content from different perspectives.
- Interactive Mirror – Use your own body to learn via full skeleton tracking in real-time.
- MultiTaction panels – An interactive display wall that can detect an unlimited number of fingers, hands, infrared pens and real life objects.
- Angio Mentor – Simulators that provide hands-on practice of endovascular procedures performed under fluoroscopy in the cath lab, interventional suite or an OR, in a virtual reality simulated environment.
- Arthro Mentor – An advanced arthroscopic training simulator.
- Partial Task surgical simulator (a.k.a. Cut Suit) – The most realistic way to simulate the look, feel and smell effects of severe traumatic events on a live human, while allowing responders to safely perform real procedures.
- Da Vinci surgical trainer – Provides access to training outside of the OR, when and where it’s most convenient.
- Transvaginal and transabdominal ultrasound trainers – ‘Real feel’ haptic simulators realistically replicate the transvaginal and transabdominal scanning experience with virtual patients.
- Caesar Trauma Patient Simulator – The most rugged patient simulator built for trauma, disaster response and combat casualty care.
- LapVR Surgical Simulator – Helps learners develop skill and dexterity in techniques such as suturing, knot tying and loop ligation as well as frequently performed laparoscopic surgeries.
- I-Human Patients Learning Platform – Cloud-based simulated patient encounters designed to develop patient assessment and diagnostic reasoning competencies.
Participating vendors include: Eon Reality, CAE Healthcare, AVI-SPL, MultiTaction, i-Human, Simbionix, Strategic Operations, Mimic and MedaPhor.
A variety of UNMC innovators also will have displays including:
- Portcas, a portable laparoscopic surgical simulation platform (Joseph Siu, Ph.D., and UNL’s Carl Nelson, Ph.D.);
- Virtual Incision, development of advanced, miniaturized robot for general surgery abdominal procedures involving (Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D., and UNL’s Shane Farritor, Ph.D.)
- Angio Teach, a 3D interactive self-learning program for coronary angiography (Ed O’Leary, M.D.)
- Virtual Trauma, virtual reality technology in simulating trauma scenarios using Google Cardboard (Michael Wadman, M.D.)
- UNMC’s e-learning innovations, interactive e-learning modules that transform the future of education (Peggy Moore)
- HEROES Project, an interdisciplinary program for biopreparedness training for nursing, medical and allied health students & continuing education programs for health care professionals. (Beth Beam, Stephen Smith)
No registration is required — just stop in to see the future of health care education.
As an added bonus, stop by the Sorrell Center, Room 3002, from noon to 1 p.m. and watch teams square off in Mission SimPossible, a simulation contest that will test the team’s skills, expertise and calm under pressure.
Thanks for reminding us of the Expo. We enjoyed our tour. We were, however, initially thrown off by the picture for this article. It almost hints that the Expo is directed at children.