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National Center for Collaboration
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Medical Modeling and Simulation
Research Projects
| Simulator
Validation |
- The NCCMMS has acquired
simulators for venous catheter insertion, colonoscopy, developing general laparoscopic surgical skills and knee/shoulder arthroscopy.
- Experimental psychologists and
medical professionals at the NCCMMS have developed protocols for
experimental validation of these simulators.
- Experiments are currently
underway at EVMS and ODU using students from both institutions.
- The NCCMMS is collaborating with
the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the
Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth on simulator validation studies in
catheter insertion and knee/shoulder arthroscopic procedures. The
NCCMMS is procuring additional simulators to expand its current
validation efforts.
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| Technology
Development |
- The NCCMMS is acquiring new
molecular visualization and pattern recognition modeling software
to simulate cellular responses to toxins, including chemical and
biological agents and other naturally occurring pathogens, which
will allow pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment of exposed
patients. Ongoing funding of this project is being pursued through
DAPRA and NIH.
- The NCCMMS is developing
Augmented Standardized Patient technology that, when utilized by
current EVMS simulated patients, will greatly expand the range of
pathologies (e.g., abnormal heart and lung sounds) that can be
portrayed by such patients during their teaching throughout the
medical education continuum, greatly enhancing the medical
education process and contributing to enhanced patient safety.
- The NCCMMS is developing a Wound
Debridement Simulator to rapidly train military medical personnel
in a skill that is rarely performed in the civilian medical sector
by military medical reservists but is a critical skill for
battlefield medicine when such personnel are activated and
deployed.
- The NCCMMS is studying Assessing
Surgical Skill Training Under Hazardous Conditions in Virtual
Environments, including the degrading of medical procedural skills
in stressful environments by investigating the performance of
personnel on a chest tube insertion procedure in a stress-free
environment versus performing the same procedure in an immersive
virtual battlefield environment where there is minimal light, the
sounds of explosions and sniper fire among other stressful special
effects.
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| Simulators in
the Curriculum |
- The NCCMMS is conducting
curriculum reviews to determine where simulation is the most
appropriate training aid for medical students and residents.
- The NCCMMS is conducting a
management inventory of all medical models and simulations
currently available on the market to serve as a means to match up
available simulations with opportunities to employ them in the
medical education curriculum. The resulting database currently
includes 15,000 entries.
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| Regional
Medical Response Simulation |
- Extensive work with the Hampton
Roads Metropolitan Medical Response System (HRMMRS) has led to its
endorsement of the development of a regional model and related
simulation by the NCCMMS to enable simulation-based exercise of
the HRMMRS plan and training of HRMMRS personnel.
- The U.S. Joint Forces Command
suggested the integration of this regional model and simulation
into Operation Determined Promise 2004. Operation Determined
Promise 2004 was a multi-level major training exercise for the US
Northern Command at the Joint Training, Analysis, and Simulation
Center (JTASC) held in August 2004 to test NORTHCOM's ability to
respond to multiple, simultaneous homeland defense challenges in
California and Virginia.
- Identification of
"off-the-shelf" models by the NCCMMS is underway to support a
near-term exercise at JTASC.
- The design of an architecture
for a persistent, distributed simulation capability is currently
underway by NCCMMS personnel.
- A review and analysis of DoD
medical simulation technology is underway in conjunction with the
Naval Health Research Center.
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| Collaborative
Partnerships |
- The NCCMMS is are working
closely with the modeling and simulation team at the University of
Louisville and the National Cancer Institute to develop joint
simulation validation studies that will increase the size of the
study population.
- The NCCMMS is beginning to plan
for a major national medical modeling and simulation conference in
FY06 in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research, the Naval
Health Research Center, the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced
Technology Research Center and the JTASC.
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