Simulation: A Superior Learning Method
30 Apr 2018
A recently published study of CME supporters and providers by M Consulting confirms this value in the CME community. According to the study, “both CME providers and supporters view simulation as an effective learning method that is superior to linear education approaches.”
Practice, engagement and learning metrics all in one platform!
22 Mar 2018
Educational Measures and Kynectiv Partner to Bring Simulation to Live Meetings
03 Jan 2018
Leveraging Simulation-Based Technology in Training
19 Dec 2017
Simulation Ranks #1 for “Most Effective” Educational Method by ACEHP Members
03 Oct 2017
DecisionSim: More than Just Clinical Learning
26 Jul 2017
VA to Share Patient Data Through Open Portal
27 Jun 2017
Kynectiv & Partners Win Best in Class CME Outcomes Award
25 May 2017
Are you Struggling to Reach Level 5 Outcomes?
02 May 2017
DecisionSim Goes Live!
19 Apr 2017
Kynectiv Appoints Dr. Gayle Shaw-Hones as Director, Learning & Development
17 Mar 2017
How can Simulation Lead to Advanced Outcomes Assessments?
17 Mar 2017
Kynectiv, Inc. recognized as 2015 Fierce Innovation Awards Healthcare Edition Finalist
23 Dec 2015
Kynectiv @ The Impact 2015 Capital Conference
12 Nov 2015
Diagnostic Accuracy and Beyond
06 Nov 2015
How to Leverage DecisionSim in Your Organization
02 Nov 2015
DecisionSim, Inc. Announces Name Change to Kynectiv™
27 Oct 2015
Kynectiv, Inc. Receives 2015 Health Care Innovator Award
23 Oct 2015
DecisionSim, Inc. to Provide Patient Education for Veterans Choice Program
05 Oct 2015
Novel Patient Engagement Approach Soon to be Available to Millions of Veterans
DecisionSim, Inc. Secures $1.85 Million in Series A Funding
02 Sep 2015
Infusion of Capital Supports Continued Business Expansion and Technology Upgrades
A Way Forward: Enabling Effective Clinical Decision-Making Through Simulation
21 Jul 2015
Multiple Simulations to Assess Performance Improvement
14 Jul 2015
Department of Veteran Affairs Continues Expansion of DecisionSim, Inc.'s Simulation-Based Learning Platform
30 Jun 2015
Nation’s largest healthcare system broadens use of ‘real-world’ teaching model to improve decisions that impact patient outcomes
Assessment and Research with DecisionSim
05 May 2015
How and When to Use Branching
25 Mar 2015
Improving Clinical Decision Making with Simulation
27 Feb 2015
Building Simulations by Storytelling with Subject Matter Experts
17 Feb 2015
Virtual On-Line Patients and their Potential in Medical Education
17 Feb 2015
Computer-based clinical simulation cases in oncology pharmacotherapy: Student perceptions from two campuses
30 Jan 2015
Ah-Ha Moments 2014
26 Jan 2015
Enhancing Decision-Making with Simulation-Based Learning to Improve Health and Healthcare Outcomes
12 Jan 2015
Simulation: A Solution for Evidence Translation
10 Jan 2015
Creating Authentic Activities
16 Dec 2014
Our New Help Center
19 Nov 2014
Suspending Disbelief: Using Branching Narrative to Captivate and Assess Learners
06 Nov 2014
Strategies for Crafting a Robust Story
14 Oct 2014
Department of Veterans Affairs Accelerates Use of DecisionSim™ to Improve Patient Outcomes
08 Oct 2014
The VA awarded a contract to Team DecisionSim to accelerate the use of DecisionSim through the development of additional clinical scenarios
Embracing Branched Learning Techniques to Drive Better Education Outcomes
08 Oct 2014
Branched learning simulations provide clinicians with a greater understanding of health issues such as basal cell carcinoma and dry eye disease. Unlike standard linear training, these simulations incorporate branching along with adaptive, personalized feedback to improve the effectiveness of the education. Learners are able to safely explore the symptoms and treatment outcomes of these diseases within highly engaging and interactive activities.
Simulation: A Proven but Underutilized Education Method
22 Sep 2014
Comparison of Virtual Patient Simulation With Mannequin-Based Simulation for Improving Clinical Performances in Assessing and Managing Clinical Deterioration: Randomized Controlled Trial
17 Sep 2014
How Physician Report Cards Can Improve Health Care
28 Aug 2014
Blending Discovery Learning with Assessment
22 Aug 2014
Continuing Medical Education Simulation Identifies Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment of Shift Work Disorder
04 Aug 2014
Shift Work Disorder is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder that is significantly underdiagnosed in primary care. Using DecisionSim™, experts created a highly interactive, certified Continuing Medical Education simulation for primary care clinicians to improve their understanding of basic sleep assessments and the diagnosis and management of Shift Work Disorder. This simulation resulted in new insights into primary care clinicians’ decision processes and uncovered data that helps explain the underdiagnosis of this disorder and provide guidance for future educational activities
Note-Taking in DecisionSim
22 Jul 2014
The Virtual Pathology Instructor: a medical student teaching tool developed using patient simulator software
26 Jun 2014
Creating Branched Narrative Simulations
20 Jun 2014
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and DecisionSim: How does your simulation grow?
16 May 2014
Department of Veterans Affairs continues partnership with Decision Simulation for its simulation platform to educate healthcare providers
14 May 2014
The DecisionSim™ enterprise license will continue to help over 300,000 VA employees improve patient outcomes through better clinical decision-making and reasoning.
Creating Dynamic Simulations that Evolve with Learners’ Choices
28 Apr 2014
Virtual patient simulation supports clinical reasoning skill building at University of Pittsburgh
26 Apr 2014
Instructional Design
17 Apr 2014
Instructional System Design: The ADDIE Model A Handbook for Practitioners
31 Mar 2014
Annals of Internal Medicine launches interactive CME- and MOC-accredited medical education tool
17 Mar 2014
Best Practices in Online Learning: Research Findings From the Department of Education
17 Mar 2014
Blended Learning is More Effective than Instructor Led Training
26 Feb 2014
Empowering Learners to Discover Insights and Solutions
07 Feb 2014
Instructional Design Models
03 Feb 2014
Top 5 Blog Posts of 2013
09 Jan 2014
Boosting our Capacity for Thinking, Learning & Decision-Making
06 Jan 2014
Learning is Changing: Reflections from 2013
28 Dec 2013
Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling
19 Dec 2013
Using Gamification Practices to Hook your Learners
08 Dec 2013
Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition Program Announces Finalists, Decision Simulation LLC Recognized
02 Dec 2013
Decision Simulation selected as a finalist for the national Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition in the category of Cloud Computing.
Capturing your Learners' Attention
01 Dec 2013
Blending Thick and Thin Narrative Simulations
22 Nov 2013
Strategies for Developing Expert Decision-Makers
17 Nov 2013
Several Cases: One DecisionSim Simulation
08 Nov 2013
Bridging Theory into Practice: Integrating Perspectives
01 Nov 2013
Innovation Award Finalist
25 Oct 2013
Creating Effective Simulations: Context, Challenge, Activity and Feedback
25 Oct 2013
Decision Simulation named one of three finalists for the 2013 Innovation Awards
24 Oct 2013
Decision Simulation named as a finalist for the Philadelphia Business Journal 2013 Innovation Awards, honoring innovative leaders in health care and life sciences, in the Early Stage Company category.
Using Audio to Personalize Feedback
04 Oct 2013
The Necessity for Clinical Reasoning in the Era of Evidence-Based Medicine
01 Oct 2013
Guidelines for Writing Effective Feedback
27 Sep 2013
Web-based Clinical Simulations Help Professional Society Members Better Diagnose And Treat Anaphylaxis
25 Sep 2013
Unlike many other professional specialties, allergy, asthma and immunology practitioners require more of a cognitive rather than procedural approach to continuing medical education. Through web-based clinical simulations, members of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) are becoming more proficient at addressing one of the most serious emergency situations they encounter: Anaphylaxis from insect bites, drug or food allergies.
Regional Health System Uses Web-based Simulations to Enhance Clinical Education
25 Sep 2013
The challenge of medical training for any healthcare system is to effectively use the limited time physicians, allied health and related professionals have with busy case loads. Reading Health System employs over 8,000 people, including over 2,000 physicians, nurses and allied healthcare providers. Reading Health System turned to Decision Simulation to create scalable, assessable learning tools to help improve decision-making and patient care.
New DecisionSim Template for Teaching Concepts: Examples and Non-Examples
21 Sep 2013
Promotion of self-directed learning using virtual patient cases
12 Sep 2013
What Type of Simulation Are You Creating?
25 Jul 2013
Staff Learn via Clinical Simulations
19 Jul 2013
Download the New DecisionSim Style Guide Today!
25 Jun 2013
Using Motivation to Increase the Holding Power of Your Simulation
20 Jun 2013
Department of Veterans Affairs Extends Partnership with Decision Simulation for its Robust Learning Platform to Educate Healthcare Providers
06 Jun 2013
The DecisionSim™ enterprise license will continue to help over 300,000 VA employees improve patient outcomes through better clinical decision-making and reasoning.
Virtual patient design: exploring what works and why
04 Jun 2013
Enhancing Clinical Education and Training, Improving Care
01 Apr 2013
Improved Decision Making can Help Prevent Readmissions
01 Mar 2013
‘Just In Time’ and ‘Just Enough’; or Death to Clippy
03 Jan 2013
Clinical Decision-Making: The Foundation for Success Under New Care Models
01 Jan 2013
Improving Military Patient Outcomes Through Web-based Clinical Simulation
10 Dec 2012
Web-based Clinical Simulations Sharpen Decision-making, Enhance Patient Care
03 Dec 2012
Sharpening Skills Through Simulation
13 Nov 2012
Simulations Train Clinicians in Value-Based Decision Making
23 Oct 2012
Using the “flipped classroom” model to re-imagine medical education
03 Oct 2012
Sharpen Clinical Decision-making to Improve Patient Care
31 Aug 2012
Virtual patients design and its effect on clinical reasoning and student experience
01 Aug 2012
Decision Simulation Bolsters its DecisionSim™ Interactive Patient Simulation Platform
16 Jul 2012
Enhancements significantly improve functionality and ease of use for educators and learners as they sharpen decision-making skills.
Cognitive interventions to reduce diagnostic error
04 Jul 2012
The Need for More Sophisticated Simulation Applications to Teach and Assess Expert Judgment
01 Jul 2012
How Can Educators Use Simulation Applications to Teach and Assess Surgical Judgment?
01 Jul 2012
Developing Virtual Patient Vignettes for Stroke Prevention & Ethics Education
18 Jun 2012
Community health workers (CHWs) can act as a valuable bridge between the healthcare/research communities and their own communities. To be most effective, though, they need training. PROTECT DC is evaluating the use of virtual patients in the training of CHWs in the context of a stroke disparities research trial.
Department of Veterans Affairs Purchases DecisionSim™ Enterprise License for National SimLEARN Program
12 Jun 2012
Nationwide rollout of DecisionSim will help over 300,000 VA employees improve patient outcomes through better clinical decision-making and reasoning
What is Instructional Design?
04 Jun 2012
Instructional Design Models and Methods
03 Jun 2012
Patient Simulation: An ACO’s Best Friend? (Part 2)
11 May 2012
Patient Simulation: An ACO’s Best Friend? (Part 1)
03 May 2012
Virtual Patient Platforms
01 May 2012
Technology Offers Many Paths to Quality Care
24 Apr 2012
Judicious Use of Simulation Technology in Continuing Medical Education
22 Apr 2012
Virtual Patient Simulation: Strengthening Medical Decisions, Strengthening Outcomes
15 Feb 2012
Designing Virtual Patients to Maximize Learning Outcomes for Medical Learners
25 Jan 2012
One of the most difficult aspects of medical education is teaching—and learning—applied decision-making skills. James Bateman, MD, is conducting research to shed light on the role of virtual patient design in promoting enhanced clinical reasoning skills by utilizing the DecisionSim™ platform.
Veterans Health Administration Selects Decision Simulation to Support Clinical Training and Education Needs for SimLEARN Program
23 Jan 2012
Advanced virtual patient learning tools to help VHA achieve educational objectives
Decision Simulation Extends Licensing Agreement with University of Pittsburgh for Virtual Patient Platform
14 Nov 2011
Updated version from University of Pittsburgh to be made commercially available by Decision Simulation in 2012
Hi-Tech Choose Your Own Adventure Coming to a Medical School Near You
02 Sep 2011
Computerized Virtual Patients in Health Professions Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
13 Oct 2010
Virtual Patients and Problem-Based Learning in Advanced Therapeutics
11 Oct 2010
James B. McGee, MD, Joins Decision Simulation as Chair of Scientific Advisory Board
01 Jul 2010
Creator of virtual patients and eLearning programs brings unique insight, deep educational experience to company.
Co-Founder of Decision Simulation, Bob Yayac, to Serve as Managing Partner
01 Jul 2010
Experienced entrepreneur and business consultant brings strategic vision and leadership to burgeoning company.
Instructional Design Framework
07 Jun 2010
Virtual Patients: ED-2 Band-Aid or Valuable Asset in the Learning Portfolio?
01 Jan 2010
Virtual Patient Simulation: Knowledge Gain or Knowledge Loss?
01 Jan 2010
12 Tips: Guidelines for Authoring Virtual Patient Cases
01 Aug 2009
The Use of Virtual Patients to Assess the Clinical Skills and Reasoning of Medical Students: Initial Insights on Student Acceptance
01 Aug 2009
Virtual Patients: A Critical Literature Review and Proposed Next Steps
01 Apr 2009
Using Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students’ Sense of Community
04 Jul 2007
Research in Clinical Reasoning: Past History and Current Trends
01 Apr 2005
Case-Based Reasoning and Instructional Design: Using Stories to Support Problem Solving
03 Jun 2002
Strategies for Developing Expert Decision-Makers
01 Jan 1970