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Clinical Playground’s Dr. Eric B. Bauman was recently back in Dominica teaching at the American Carribean School of medicine (ACSOM). In addition to teaching his simulation-based resuscitation and crisis resource management course to medical students and teaching AHA ACLS and BLS courses for new faculty, he also facilitated four workshops for physician and nursing staff from the DCFH Hospital. Over the course of several days Dr. Bauman and several additional staff and faculty from ACSOM provided continuing education

Dr. Eric B. Bauman recently accepted an adjunct faculty position at the American Canadian School of Medicine (ACSOM) in Dominica. During a recent trip to the campus Dr. Bauman taught a crisis management and resuscitation block for medical students, had the opportunity to tour the recently rebuild Friendship Hospital, spent a morning providing continuing education opportunity for the Fire Department. As many may recall, Dr. Bauman spent 30 years in the Fire/EMS service. He occupied many roles including:

Clinical Playground’s Founder Dr. Eric B. Bauman was recently recognized by Sigma or Sigma Theta Tau,  the International Honor Society of Nursing for his volunteer contributions. Sigma has over 135,000 active members and is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, teaching, learning, and service through the cultivation of communities of practice, education, and research. Dr. Bauman was recognized for his contributions to the organization including grant and conference submissions at the international level, his contributions to Sigma publications and

By Eric B. Bauman, PhD, FSSH, PMHNP-BC I am delighted to be moderating the first in a four-speaker game development pro-series on Wednesday April 6th at Noon Central.  Even more exciting is that the first speaker is award winning game director and entrepreneur, Brenda Romero! Romero asks the question, who determines the cultural and societal considerations of our physical and digital lives? What gets left out, and what gets brought in? Meta verses are mirrors of their creators. As

Clinical Playground’s Dr. Eric B. Bauman recently gave a talk with Melissa Morris, a PhD student he is mentoring from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions on the role of presence and immersion in virtual reality as compared standard web-based video conferencing. The talk was part of the 2021 International Healthcare Simulation Week (September 13-19) and was facilitated by Dr. David Li and sponsored by Guangzhou First Peoples Hospital and SIMFEED. The included well

Eric B. Bauman, PhD, FSSH, RN Clinical Playground founder and managing member Dr. Eric B. Bauman John “Pathfinder” Lester was recently featured as an Acadicus roundtable guest facilitator, hosted by Jon Brouchoud and John “Pathfinder” Lester. Acadicus, a virtual reality teaching and learning platform provides an expansive library of virtual simulation content for training and education. Brouchoud and Bauman have worked on several healthcare education projects together including the Award Winning VR Airway Lab.  The other John, aka

Join Clinical Playground Founder Dr. Eric B. Bauman and frequent collaborators Jon Brouchoud of Arch Virtual and Penny Ralston-Berg from Penn State World for their webinar titled: Objective Based Design & Narrative for Virtual Simulation: Pearls and Perils Bauman, Brouchoud and Ralston-Berg are award winning designers with significant experience in healthcare education, educational design, and digital technology. This webinar is being hosted by HealthySimulation.com an organization dedicated to providing the latest #MedSim

Penny Ralston-Berg We are admittedly overdue on this congratulations, but we want to take the opportunity to offer big congratulations to one of our favorite collaborators – Penny Ralston-Berg.  Penny is a Penn State World Campus instructional designer known as a national leader in her field. She recently received an outstanding service award from one of the country’s leading distance education organizations. She is the first recipient of the Outstanding Service in Postsecondary Instructional Design Award from the University Professional and

Clinical Playground – Proud Sponsor of M+Dev 2020 Clinical Playground, LLC is a proud sponsor of this year’s M+Dev conference in Madison, WI on February 14. We hope to see you at the hottest new venue supporting the game development and media arts industry. For information about the full slate of exciting speakers and ticket information, check out the M+Dev 2020 website. The M+Dev Conference Committee recently announced that Nika Nour, Executive Director of the International Games Developers