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The MedSMART Approach:
Advanced Medical Distributed Learning and Interactive Simulation

The original concept whose development was started by the MRT scientists and which has now been substantially expanded by the same research group now affiliated with MedSMART.  The principal obstacles to long-distance simulation-based training have been solved by integrating advanced, remotely controlled Human Patient Simulators HPS into a fully interactive 3-D video-teleconferencing/telepointing Internet-based network whose geographical range is, essentially, unlimited.

The proprietary solutions devised by MedSMART allow the trainee to see and interact with the simulator located virtually anywhere in the world.  The trainee can now practice skills of medical management, leadership, and team interaction without having physical access to the simulator, and yet face the same challenges as if the HPS was standing in the same room!  Moreover, the MedSMART approach allows inclusion of an expert teacher as the director of each training exercise irrespectively of the teacher’s location.  Thus, the simulator may be located in Stavanger, Norway, the trainees in New Delhi, while the expert teachers instructing on the techniques of airway management may be sitting at his or her office in Tokyo or at one of London’s teaching hosapitals!  All activities happen in real time, all participants (trainees and teachers) see the same pattern of vital signs on their monitors, all hear the same dialogue and the same heart sounds.  Whenever needed, the teacher can stop the simulator and provide additional instruction, whenever faults are discovered, the same scenario can be run over and over again until full master is attained.

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