Tag: simulation

  • Nation & World

    In the cold and rain, a sprawling lesson on caring

    About 250 faculty, students, and volunteers descended on Massachusetts’ Harold Parker State Forest last weekend for a disaster simulation aimed to prepare students studying humanitarian disaster response for the real thing.

    5 minutes
    Participants learn to treat injuries in a humanitarian disaster simulation.
  • Nation & World

    Real as a heart attack, almost

    “Standardized patients” are trained actors who role-play the sort of diagnostic puzzles regularly faced by practicing physicians. They interact with students at the Tosteson Medical Education Center at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A taste of danger

    Students in humanitarian relief got a taste of crisis during a three-day simulation at Harold Parker State Forest.

    5 minutes