Dr. Eric B. Bauman Provides Game-Based Learning Workshop for San Francisco State University School of Nursing

Jill Saberman MSN, WHNP-BC & Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN

Jill Saberman MSN, WHNP-BC and Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN

Dr. Eric B. Bauman recently returned from a visit to the San Francisco State University School of Nursing where he provided a workshop on Game-Based Learning for Nursing and Clinical Education on April, 3, 2013. He was invited to the San Francisco State campus after Jill Saberman, MSN, WHNP-BC who is the campus Simulation Program Coordinator saw Bauman’s plenary session and workshop at the 2012 Magic in Teaching Conference sponsored by the California Simulation Alliance and the University of San Francisco School of Nursing.

Bauman spent the morning discussing and demonstrating how game and mobile application learning can be integrated into nursing and health sciences curricula.  During the afternoon he met with various faculty to provide in depth consultation related to concepts of best-practice and best-fit when choosing specific types of digital environments and learning platforms for nursing and clinical education.

 

 

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Dr. Eric B. Bauman introduces Game-Based Learning to the International Dialysis Conference

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Clinical Playground’s founder and managing member Dr. Eric B. Bauman was in Seattle on March 11th for the 2013 International Dialysis conference, where he provided a plenary session titled Apps & Games for Clinical and Patient Education: Mechanism for Behavioral Change.  Mobile applications, video games, and virtual environments are increasingly being integrated into clinical and continuing education curricula.  Using mobile applications and games for patient education remain an under-leveraged, yet promising possibility for facilitating behavioral change.  Traditional didactic strategies for patient education remain largely ineffective.  This is of particular concern when it comes to dialysis care and kidney disease because behavioral change, the types of decisions patients make in terms of diet, and adherence to treatment plans could have huge effects on mortality and morbidity.

Using innovative strategies like game-based learning may be seen as innovative and engaging by patients.  Further, game-based learning, including mobile technology may provide interesting and novel ways to map behavioral change to quantitative data related to disease process.

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Eric B. Bauman in Seattle

Mobile applications and video games often have built in scoring matrices that can document player/patient success in various targeted domains. These matrices make them particularly interesting research tools and mechanisms for mapping behavior to tangible data like diagnostic laboratory findings.

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IMSH Serious Games and Virtual Environments Showcase and Arcade Award Winners

Bruce Nappi & Sem Lampotang

Bruce Nappi & Sem Lampotang

By Katie White, MD

The Serious Games and Virtual Environments Showcase and Arcade at IMSH 2013 in  in Orlando, Florida at Peabody Convention Center was a resounding success again this year. The number of participants continues to grow as does the buzz surrounding the event. Using the hashtag #IMSHarcade, Twitter kept IMSH attendees informed about the event and certainly contributed to the record numbers of gamers who showed up to try out this year’s entries.

Awards were given out to the top two entries in each of four categories: Academic – Student, Academic – Faculty, Commercial – Small or Emerging Company, and Commercial – Large Company. There were 3 judges on this year’s panel: Gerald Stapleton, MS, Director of Distance Education for the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Medicine; Ben Devane, PhD, from the University of Florida’s Digital Worlds Institute; and Katie White, MD from the University of Iowa Department of Medicine. They evaluated entries with respect to their educational value, the quality of the game as it relates to its user interface, and their impact on training in clinical healthcare fields. The following awards were handed out at this year’s awards ceremony on January 29, 2013:

IMSH2013 Arecade

Academic – Student Winner:

  • Lift-Off App for Behavioral Therapy – Katelyn Procci, et al., University of Central Florida

Academic-Faculty Runner-Up:

  •  On-line Neonatal NP and NICU Training Module – Judy Leflore, University of Texas at Arlington

Academic-Faculty Winner:

Student Winner - Katelyn Procci

Student Winner – K. Procci

  • ON Call – Emergency Triage Communication Game – Massachussetts Digital Games Institute and UMass Medical School

Commercial – Small or Emerging Company Runner-Up:

  • Resuscitation! app, EM Gladiators LLC

Commercial – Small or Emerging Company Winner:

  •  i-Human Virtual Patient Software, i-Human

Commercial – Large Company Runner-Up:

  • STAT! – Trauma Triage, Vcom3D Inc.

Commercial – Large Company Winner:

  • Mimic Robotic Simulator, Mimic Simulation

IMSH 2014 will be held in San Francisco on January 26-28. Next year will mark the 4th Annual Serious Games and Virtual Environments Arcade & Showcase.  The Arcade and Showcase continues to grow in size and popularity and you do not want to miss it next year.

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Clinical Playgroud Founder Receives Award at IMSH 2013

Eric B. Bauman

Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN received an award for Service and Dedication to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) on January, 29, 2013 in Orlando, FL. Dr. Bauman was recognized for his service as the inaugural chair of the Society’s website committee.  The virtual or web presence of the the Society has become essential in the digital age.  Not only is the SSH itself steeped with technology, but the internet has become the primary means for member involvement outside of IMSH. The webpage is the face of the SSH and provides the primary preparation venue for IMSH, which attracts some 3000 participants annually. The webpage, ssih.org also provides the portal for digital access for the Society’s official journal, Simulation in Healthcare.

In Related News: Drs. White and Bauman of Clinical Playground Join the Social Media Faculty at IMSH

IMSH 2013 Social Media Faculty

Katie White, MD and Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN joined, Yue Dong, MD, Suzie Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, Jeff Taekman, MD, and Andrew Spain as faculty facilitators for the Social Media in Medical Education session at IMSH.  This course has been offered at the last three IMSH Conferences, first in New Orleans in 2011 and last year in San Diego.  With every year the participation has grown. This year had over 80 participants working with course faculty to learn about twitter, linkedin, blogging, and facebook. This session was also live tweeted by Dr. Ben DeVane from from the University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute [#SSHSM]. Blogger extraordinaire Jeff Taekman actually left IMSH to attend MacWorld/iWorld, where he gave a talk on a recent blog he started that focuses Workflows in Personal and Professional Productivity (WiPPP.com). Dr. Taekman is Director of the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center. Also see Taekman’s orginal blog SimSingularity.

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Clinical Playground Players Head to IMSH in Orlando

Clinical Playround players, colleagues, and collaborators are headed to the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2013 in Orlando Florida January 26-30.  Drs. Eric B. Bauman and Katie White will be working with frequent Clinical Playground, LLC collaborators to facilitate a four-hour per-conference and two-hour immersive workshop on Game-Based Learning and Immersive Environments.  Bauman and White will be joined by Drs. Parvati Dev and Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs from clinispace.com, as well as Dr. Cindy Foronda from University of Miami and Gerald Stapleton from University of Illinois – Chicago.

White and Bauman will also be participating in a panel discussion and workshop on the merits and importance of Social Media and Education, specifically clinical education led by Dr. Yue Dong  from the Mayo Clinic. They will be joined by Dr. Jeff Taekman from Duke University, Dr. Suzie Kardong Edgren from Boise State, Andrew Spain from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and self proclaimed “Social Media Geek” Jen Reeves.  Reeves, a former producer and educator has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the area of social media. Join the hype and live discussion at IMSH on twitter for this workshop by following #SSHSM.

Ben DeVane

Drs. Bauman and Taekman will be joined by Beth Bryant of Games for Health and DigitalMill to facilitate the 3rd Annual Serious Games and Virtual Environment Arcade and Showcase. This year year marks the innaugral Best-in-Show awards for the Arcade and Showcase.  Dr. Ben DeVane Assistant Professor from the University of Florida Digital World Institute at Gainesville will be leading the judging efforts with Gerald Stapleton and Dr. Katie White.

If you cannot make it to IMSH this year, you can follow the happenings of the conference in general on twitter by following #IMSH2013.

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Yenilmez Demonstrates Passion for Physical Therapy and Game-Based Learning

Tolga Yenilmez

Tolga Yenilmez, PT is working with Dr. Eric B. Bauman on his Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) practicum project at Boston University. Yenilmez is a licensed and registered physical therapist in 3 countries (Turkey, United Kingdom and USA). He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Istanbul, Turkey and since then has been working with a wide variety of patients, of different cultures and age groups. His areas of interest are holistic therapy, aquatic therapy and nutritional support for recovery of patients. He became licensed and registered as a physiotherapist in United Kingdom’s HPC (Health Professionals Council) in 2004 and as a physical therapist in the State of New York  in 2009. In addition, Yenilmez has translated medical journal articles for Turgut Publishing, Inc. in Istanbul.

Yenilmez’s practicum project seeks to use a game-based application to teach students about positional injuries related to academic life – posture, computer use, etc… To this end Yenilmez is concurrently enrolled at Madison Collage in the very competitive animation and graphic arts program focusing on clinical and medical applications.  Pursuing both programs simultaneously is symbiotic and rigorous.  This sort of commitment demonstrates Tenilmez’s commitment to pursuing and achieving goals that are both academic and translational.

 

 

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Bauman’s Authors@HSLC Book Talk Receives Enthusiastic Reviews

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Clinical Playground, LLC founder and managing member Dr. Eric B. Bauman received warm and enthusiastic reviews for his book talk as part of the Authors@HSLC series at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on November 8, 2012.  Bauman discussed his recently published textbook Game-Based Teaching and Simulation for Nursing and Healthcare.  Dr. Moses Wolfenstein and Allan Barclay, two of the books co-authors also attended this event, as did the book’s technical editor Mary Jo Trapani. The event was tweeted by Wolfenstein and the Springer Publishing Company [#baumanHSLC].  Aside from the live in-person audience, numerous others tuned in for the live feed of Bauman’s talk.  If you missed the talk but are interested in seeing the talk, it has been archived on the the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s servers and is publicly available.

Sales and feedback of the text have been very positive with a second printing already being planned.  Below is an expert from the forward from Game-Based Teaching and Simulation for Healthcare written by renowned nursing scholar Professor Pam Jeffries, PhD, RN from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

Pam Jeffries, PhD, RN

This text has been written and disseminated at a perfect time… Overall, this book provides the foundation for using and integrating…. emerging technologies into the learning environment, thus becoming an important faculty development plan for health professional educators …

The text was also endorsed by Dr. Kim Leighton, PhD, RN from the DeVry, Inc. Healthcare Group, Professor Kurt Squire, PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the well know and respected Games+Learning+Society, as well as Professor and Endowed Chair from Boise State University Suzie Kardong Edgren, PhD, RN. Below is an excerpt from Squires endorsement

Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Health Care is a timely and exhaustive look at how emerging technologies are transforming clinical education. Anyone looking for a firsthand and direct account of how game-based learning technologies are reshaping clinical practice needs this book.

The URL for the archived talk is: http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videos/43065

 This Book Talk was sponsored by the The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University Bookstore at the Health Sciences Learning Center.

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November 8, 2012 Book Talk: Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Eric B. Bauman will be giving a noon talk at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Health Sciences Learning Center about his recently published textbook Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Healthcare on November 8, 2012.  Co-author and frequent collaborator Dr. Moses Wolfenstein will be introducing Dr. Bauman and tweeting the event. In addition, the event will be live streamed by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health as part of their Authors@HSLC series.  The URL for the live stream can be accessed by going to http://live.videos.med.wisc.edu/ and clicking on the event. The talk will also be archived for later viewing.

Allan Barclay from the Ebling Health Sciences Library will also be on hand. Allan is one of the original Clinical Playground Players and also co-authored sections of the Game-Based Teaching and Simulation for Nursing and Healthcare. Bauman and Barclay have been frequent collaborators over the years and were the impetus behind the Games & Simulation for Healthcare Library and Database at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

What: Meet the Author Book & Book Talk… Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Healthcare

Where: Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1309 on the UW-Madison Campus

When: Thursday, November 8, 2012 @ Noon

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Conference Updates & Summer Musings

The Fall and Winter conference circuit is shaping up.  Dr. Eric B. Bauman, Clinical Playground’s founder and managing member will be giving the plenary session on Game-Based Learning at the California Simulation Alliance Magic in Teaching Conference in San Francisco November 14-16, 2012.  Dr. Bauman will also be facilitating a workshop on hybrid simulation with Dr. Parvati Dev of ClinicSpace.

Bauman will also be joined by colleagues, Parvati Dev & LeRoy Wm. Heinrichs (CliniSpace), Katie White (University of Iowa), Cindy Foronda (University of Miami), and Gerald Stapleton (University of Illinois – Chicago) at the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in Orlando, January 26-30, 2013 for both a pre-conference workshop on hybrid simulation and an immersive session on game-based and virtual environments.

“Game-Based Teaching & Simulaiton in Nursing and Health Care” by Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN is in bookstores and available for purchase online. Co-authors and contributors include, A. Barclay, M. Wolfenstein, B. DeVane, P. Ralston-Berg, M. Gaydos, R. Pyburn, P. Kato, M. Lara, Gerald Stapleton, Beth Bryant, and M.J. Trapani. This book was endorsed by Professor Kurt Squire from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the forward was written by Professor Pamela Jeffries from Johns Hopkins University.

Aurel Mihai, one of the Original Clinical Playground LLC Players is finishing up his Med2 exams at Ross Medical University School of Medicine and will begin clinical clerkship rotations this fall.

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Clinical Playground & CliniSpace take 2nd Place @ INACSL 2012

Drs. Bauman, Dev, and Heinrichs at INACSL 2012 in San Antonio, TX

Authors Eric B. Bauman (Clinical Playground, LLC), Parvati Dev, and Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs (CliniSpace) won second place in the education track poster/abstract contest at the 11th annual International Nursing   Simulation/Learning Resource Centers Conference sponsored by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) conference in San Antonio, Texas on June 21, 2012. This conference is attended by international nursing and healthcare leaders dedicated to leveraging simulation and technology for nursing and clinical education.

Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN

The award winning poster titled Creating Complementary Learning Environments: Moving Between Virtual Worlds and Mannequin-based Simulations focused on engaging learners and creating research opportunities by creating complimentary digital and fixed space simulation environments.

Clinical Playground, LLC and CliniSpace have been frequent collaborators on several projects over the last year. Look for even more collaborative work from these two innovative teams in the future.

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