Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Making for Medical Simulation
World Maker Faire 2017
MAKERS
Henry Feldman
Dr. Henry Feldman is a practicing hospitalist physician at BIDMC, software engineer and maker, involved in developing enterprise software applications, medical simulation devices, teaching internal maker courses and clinical devices.
Darren Tavernelli
Darren is a registered nurse and is one of the core faculty at the BIDMC Shapiro Simulation Center, running all manner of simulations, and designs, creates and maintains hundreds of medical simulation devices. He is the master of all things silicone.
Michael McBride
Michael is a registered nurse and core faculty at the BIDMC Shapiro Simulation Center, and prior to being a nurse he was a navy radio technician, and is an expert maker with electronics and maintaining our simulation robots.
Alex Chee
Dr. Chee is at the Chest Diseases center at BIDMC as an interventional pulmonologist, who works in making complex simulation models of the lungs using lost-wax investment casting from radiology data (CT Scans)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a hospital at Harvard medical school. We run a large medical simulation center for teaching at all levels. We will be showing off some of our devices and offering many seminars so you can make your own.
What inspired you to make this project?:
the medical field is a challenging and dynamic field, and simulation plays a key role in learning our complex art. The challenge has been high fidelity medical simulation has been so expensive that it is cost prohibitive, for junior learners (such as medical students) and certainly in lower socioeconomic areas. We set out to create extremely high fidelity simulation devices that can be made at extreme low cost (we try to keep task trainers in the $15 range with complex ones up to $50). Seeing simulations being put in front of learners that would never have been exposed to the topic, simply because we've made it so cheap that there is no barrier to doing so, is incredibly rewarding.
