Laerdal Medical and Wolters Kluwer Health announced today a product and distribution alliance that will transform healthcare education. The "Learning for Saving Lives" alliance will initially target undergraduate programs of nursing, medicine and the health professions, and will seamlessly integrate curriculum offerings from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, with simulated patient case solutions from Laerdal.

Fourth-year medical students who participated in an educational intervention were more likely to seek, identify and incorporate into care patient circumstances that may require variation from standard care, compared to students in a control group.

HOUSTON, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital opened the doors of its brand new Simulation Center today, where healthcare teams will be trained in the management of rare, complex, and complicated patient care through a simulated clinical environment.

By Melissa Repko As part of the University at Buffalo's goal of maintaining its stronghold in the rapidly changing health sciences, the school will soon open a multimillion-dollar medical simulation center that it hopes will spur another one downtown.

Throughout U.S. medical schools a new program that lets doctors-in-training test their diagnostic skills and bedside manner by assessing the ailments of patients played by real people is growing in popularity.