Competence Assessment for Spinal Anaesthesia

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Medical Training Anaesthetists in training Developing medical competencies

Simulation Utilising VR-based simulator Means of automatically observing actions Training in a safe environment

Competence Assessment Competence based Knowledge Space Theory (CbKST) Transferring CbKST from the educational domain to the medical domain

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MedCAP in the media

CXVascular

HSE

Irish Times

Irish Medical Times

The Engineer

medGadget

SenseGraphics - Hall of Fame

Publications

ICWL 2009

Hockemeyer, C., Nussbaumer, A., Lõvquist, E., Aboulafia, A., Breen, D., Shorten, G. and Albert, D. (2009). Applying a Web and Simulation-Based System for Adaptive Competence Assessment of Spinal Anaesthesia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5686, pp. 182-191.

INTUITION 2008

Lõvquist, E., Kulcsár, Z., Fernstrõm, M., Aboulafia, A., Shorten. G., (2008) The Design of a Haptic Simulator for Teaching and Assessing Spinal Anaesthesia. In proceedings of the 5th Intuition Conference, 6-8 October, Turin, Italy

CBMS 2008

Zhang, D., Albert, D., Hockemeyer, C., Breen, D., Kulcsár, Z., Shorten, G., Aboulafia, A., & Lõvquist, E. (in press). Developing competence assessment procedure for spinal anaesthesia. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, June 2008, Jyvaskyla, Finland.

CATE 2008

Lõvquist, E., Aboulafia, A., Breen, D., Shorten, G., Zhang, D., Albert, D. (in press). Designing a simulation-supported adaptive assessment system for spinal anaesthesia. Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, September 2008, Crete, Greece.

Scientific meetings

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2009

Erik Lõvquist presented the MedCAP-system at the MMVR 2009 conference, as part of his presentation "Applying User-Centred Design for Medical Simulation".

INMED 2008

Annette Aboulafia presented the MedCAP-system at the INMED 2008 conference.

Awards

ISRA prize

Congratulations to Emer O'Mahoney being awarded the ISRA prize for her paper presentation.

Irish Medical Awards

Congratulations to Erik Lõvquist, Computer Engineer, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick on being selected as "Clinical Research Associate of the Year" at the Irish Medical Times/Irish Healthcare Awards 2008.