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We undertake a variety of medical projects across a wide range of health care organizations, providing evaluations of medical simulations, medical curriculum, and automated assessments of practitioners’ knowledge, skills, and abilities—both individually and in team settings.
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Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals: Evaluation of VetGuard and SimSensei for Veteran Use
Evaluation, Technology
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are real issues for veterans returning from combat. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS) program sought to develop tools that could measure the psychological welfare of veterans. CRESST at UCLA conducted a set of studies to evaluate […]
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Evaluation of Simulations for Assessing Medical Education and Training, Office of Naval Research/Army Telemedicine & Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Assessment, Technology
Simulations have become common in medical education. They can be used for instruction or assessment, and are currently used by many medical schools for end-of-course comprehensive examinations, as well as part of the licensure process in the U.S. and other countries. Because simulations are created explicitly to serve more than one measurement purpose (e.g., selection, […]
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Educational Resource Framework – Curriculum Assessment Toolkit (ERF-CAT) – Federal Medical Simulation and Training Consortium (FMSTC) Educational Framework Initiative (EFI)
Assessment, Evaluation, Technology
The Federal Medical Simulation Training Consortium (FMSTC.org) is a partnership of Department of Defense and other federal institutions, such as the Veterans Administration (VA), both of which are involved in medical training and education. CRESST has developed a toolkit, the ERF-CAT (Educational Resource–Curriculum Assessment Toolkit) which contains templates and methodologies to allow the consortium to […]
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Design of a Screen-Based Simulation for Training and Automated Assessment of Teamwork Skills
Assessment, Learning Design, Technology
While communication and teamwork skills are increasingly recognized as important factors in improving patient safety, training of teamwork skills (“team training”) is not routinely incorporated into graduate training or continuing medical education programs. Communication failures between team members are responsible for up to 70% of medical errors. Traditional team training sessions have consisted of classroom-based […]
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Assessment of Ultrasound for Integration with Clinical Medicine
Assessment, Technology
Working with Pelagique, LLC, a Department of Defense medical contractor, CRESST has been instrumental in developing and validating ultrasound proficiency metrics—a critical step toward responsibly integrating ultrasound technology into clinical medicine. As part of our pioneering work, we created an ontology of the fundamentals of ultrasound, which defines the knowledge, skills, and user attributes required […]
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