Simulation Based Medical Learning in Pathology (Patent Pending): 

Uncontrolled practice variability in diagnostic testing has contributed to high rates of error and sky-rocketing costs. For example, in the field of pathology diagnostic testing, more than 70% of patient diagnostic testing samples are defective and an error affects the management of more than 230,000 of the 1.6 million patients diagnosed with cancer annually in the United States.

This error frequency has remained unchanged over the last several decades. We believe that simulation based medical education (SBME) combined with LEAN methods of quality improvement, has the potential to improve diagnostic care by fundamentally changing the underlying culture and processes that contribute to unsafe practices.

The incorporation of simulation training in pathology education offers several potential benefits:  

• Reduction of patient risk
• Elimination of practice variability
• Deliberative practice
• Development of complex skill sets in an off-line environment
• Close monitoring of practice with graduated responsibility
• Practice in environments with simulated failure
• Practice with high case volume that include rare and challenging patient specimens specifically prone
  to error.

Our goal is to replace ineffective and outdated models of training and produce pathologists who are more highly skilled, make fewer errors, team-focused and trained in quality improvement.

As a result, patients will receive safer healthcare and will have improved outcomes as a result of improved diagnostic testing services.

Our goal is to develop an international center in the implementation of Simulation education in laboratory practice. We believe that this implementation will result in considerable cost savings, error reduction and improvement in timeliness and efficiency (patent pending).

We are also working on developing a digital-based quality control system in diagnostic pathology that has the potential to revolutionize how quality control is practiced in pathology laboratories (patent pending).