CliniSpace Screen Shot Clinical Playground, LLC is thrilled to be working with Parvati Dev, PhD of Innovation in Learning, Inc. on their award winning CliniSpaceTM virtual environment platform. CliniSpaceTM recently won the Grand Prize in the 2011 Federal Virtual Worlds Contest and First Place in the in the “Artificial Intelligence in Training” category. Clinical Playground, LLC is working to provide scripting and narrative for a multi-professional communication module, which will be demonstrated at the upcoming INACSL 10th Annual
Virtual Heroes HumanSim The 2011 Games for Health Conference in Boston last week was a big hit. This year featured distinct pre-conference tracks including the Medica Ludica track. Clinical Playground’s own Eric B. Bauman presented on educational theory for game-based learning in the clinical sciences. The Games for Health Conference series is one of the few venues where attendees can take a very hands on approach to learning about games designed for healthcare education from both the clinical and
Clinical Playground founding and managing member EricB. Bauman will be heading to Boston for the 7th annual Games for Health Conference. This year’s Games for Health Conference also comprises multiple co-sponsored pre-conference events including Ludica Medica I: Medical Modeling, Simulation, Learning & Training with Videogames & Videogame Technologies. This event’s playful title emphasizes its focus on a number of contributions that videogames, and their associated technologies make to the fields ofmedical modeling, simulation, and clinical
A Daybook for Nurse Educators published by Sigma Theta Tau is now available. Clinical Playground, LLC founding and managing member, Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN contributed to this inspirational collection of thoughts provided by many nursing educators. The book which is edited by Katherine Pakieser-Reed, PhD, RN contains 365 reflective and educational anecdotal messages from numerous educators.
Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN and his Games+Learning+Society colleague David W. Simkins were in Green Bay, Wisconsin yesterday presenting at the Year Five Wisconsin Technology Enhanced Collaboration in Nursing Education (WI TECNE) Conference. Bauman and Simkins presented their analysis of five online nursing courses supported by WI TECNE offered through the University of Wisconsin System from a human interface perspective. Bauman also gave a presentation about Online Gaming for Nursing Education. The conference
Eric Bauman, PhD, RN and Katie White, MD will be presenting at the 2011 METI Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) Conference. The 2011 HPSN conference runs from February 22-24 at the Marriott Waterside – Tampa, FL. Bauman and White will be presenting on Wednesday February 23 at 11:30. Their presentation is titled: Simulation-Based Resuscitation – Team Leadership. The weather in Madison, WI – Clinical Playground’s world headquarters has taken a turn for the ugly (snow and
Katie White Katie White, MD has joined the Clinical Playground “Players” list as an Associate. Dr. White is a staff physician at the William Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison, WI. Dr. White and Clinical Playground, LLC founding and managing member Dr. Eric B. Bauman met while White was rounding out her Internal Medicine training as Chief Resident at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Drs. White and Bauman will be in Tampa, FL
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 7.0 to be held June 15–17, 2011 at the Memorial Union located in the lakefront on the Madison campus. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its seventh year, this grass roots “indie” event is evolving to include innovative content formats and new programming. Conference submissions are due March 7, 2011 and can be submitted
#IMSH2011 Tweet-Heads There were many highlights associated with the 2011 SSH International Meeting of Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH). The Website Task Force (Eric B. Bauman, Renee Pyburn, Aurel Mihai, John Rice, Katie, White, and Allan Barclay) were honored with a Presidential Citation for dedication and hard work in support of SSH web environment. Also, the Website Task Force has officially been granted committee status. Eric will remain chair and Renee will assume the position of vice-chair. The
