Gaining Insights with Interdisciplinary Rural Health Simulation

Alumni & Friends
August 12, 2024 by
Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, UCF will bring a rural health clinic experience to the classroom to prepare future healthcare providers. Beginning this fall, students from UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Center will have an opportunity to provide care in a rural health clinic without having to leave campus. Created […]

Mixing Realities for More Realistic Trauma Training

College & Campus News
March 8, 2024 by
A patented innovation developed by UCF researchers brings the virtual and physical worlds together to enhance healthcare training for trauma and casualty care. One of the first steps in trauma, wound, and combat casualty care is to stop the bleeding. “There’s a right amount of pressure. Too much is not a good thing. Not enough […]

UCF Health Leaders Academy Helps Teens Chart Path to Medicine

College & Campus News
July 29, 2022 by
Organized by the UCF College of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the week-long Health Leaders Summer Academy helped students chart their career paths to healthcare professions. They learned about health-centered education tracks and programs at UCF, tour university campuses and facilities, and engaged in activities designed to increase interest, awareness and passion for […]

Healthcare Organization Honors Simulation Expert in College of Nursing

Awards & Kudos
April 16, 2021 by
Syretta Spears, assistant director of the UCF Simulation, Technology, Innovation and Modeling (STIM) Center in the College of Nursing, is among the world’s first 25 professionals to receive the advanced certified healthcare simulation operations specialist (CHSOS-A) designation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. In addition, in other related news, the College of Nursing’s Healthcare […]

Nursing Professor Named Healthcare Simulation Educator of the Year

Awards & Kudos
March 9, 2021 by
Professor Mindi Anderson, inaugural director of UCF’s Healthcare Simulation graduate program in the College of Nursing, today was named 2020 Educator of the Year by the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare. In addition to her accomplishments and research, Anderson’s “growing national and international reputation as an independent investigator and major contributor in advancing the […]

New Healthcare Simulation Continuing Education Opportunity

College & Campus News
February 4, 2021 by
  Leveraging its faculty expertise in healthcare simulation, UCF College of Nursing is partnering with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare to present a new continuing education opportunity. The one-day, live and interactive online course will be led by UCF’s healthcare simulation experts and will prepare healthcare professionals to become a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator […]

UCF Celebrates 25 Years of Online Learning with Top-15 U.S. Ranking

Academics
January 26, 2021 by
U.S. News & World Report has once again ranked UCF among the Best Online Bachelor’s programs in the nation — this time, coming in at No. 14.     “Our high rankings are a testament to the terrific work of our talented faculty and instructional designers who produce engaging, high-quality courses that support our students’ success […]

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