Customer Stories
Over 1,700 Intelligent Ultrasound systems have been installed in more than 800 medical institutions around the world. Take a look at our customer stories showing how ultrasound simulation is impacting educational outcomes, preparing trainees for and supporting them in clinical practice.
University of Hertfordshire achieves 100%transvaginal pass rate with ScanTrainer
As guided practice on real patients becomes scarce, the University of Derby’s College of Health and Social Care sought an ultrasound simulation to enhance its postgraduate sonography program.
BodyWorks Eve has just been admitted into New York’s VA Medical Center presenting with shortness of breath, tachycardia and chest pain…
The VA Medical Center (NY Harbor) Simulation Laboratory has just taken delivery of BodyWorks Eve to develop and support its educational programs in Point of Care ultrasound (PoCUS). Dr. Brian Kaufman, Professor of Medicine, Anesthesiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery and Director of the Simulation Laboratory discusses the growing demands for PoCUS training and explains why simulation…
Canada’s largest sonography programme chooses ScanTrainer and HeartWorks
Mohawk College, in collaboration with McMaster University, has opened a new Centre for Healthcare Simulation, an interprofessional educational facility, complete with new ScanTrainer and HeartWorks simulators to support its expanding sonography programme. The college had been a ScanTrainer user since 2015. Although initially planning to utilise ScanTrainer to teach students obstetric ultrasound motion skills, its greater…
First BodyWorks Eve installed at NYU School of Medicine
The first BodyWorks Eve, Point of Care ultrasound (PoCUS) simulator, has been installed at NYU School of Medicine, in the simulation laboratory of the affiliated Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System NY Campus, New York, USA. BodyWorks Eve is an ultra-realistic female manikin-based simulator designed specifically for doctors looking to train in Point of…
Central Middlesex Hospital opens new ultrasound training academy with ScanTrainer
The London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) has chosen ScanTrainer for its new state-of-the-art Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital. The new education centre has been designed to ease growing ultrasound training pressures and clinical demands across the Trust and beyond. Faced with a looming 24/7 NHS, the imminent rise in demand for…
University of Hertfordshire achieves 100% transvaginal pass rate with ScanTrainer
The University of Hertfordshire needed an advanced simulation solution to counter the lack of clinical practice opportunities for its ultrasound students. Since implementing a ScanTrainer Transvaginal Simulator (TVS), student confidence levels are at an all-time high and the University is achieving a 100% pass rate across all transvaginal modules. Limited clinical practice opportunities adversely affected…
Introducing the Derby Ultrasound Critical Care Course (DUCC) featuring HeartWorks
The Royal Derby University Hospital’s Ultrasound in Critical Care Course (DUCC) developed by Dr. Craig Morris, Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, is a stimulating 2-day course of lectures and workshops covering the essentials of transthoracic echocardiography in critical care settings. The course is CPD accredited by FICE (Focused Intensive Care Echo) and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA).…
Better training, Better healthcare…
Dr. Thomas Burch M.D., Cardiac Anesthesiologist from Boston Children’s Hospital gives a personal account of how simulation training using the HeartWorks system helped to increase his confidence with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in his patient care. “I first came across the HeartWorks Simulator back in 2005 when I began teaching Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE). At that time…
MedaPhor installs 500th simulation system
MedaPhor Group plc (AIM: MED), the global provider of advanced ultrasound training simulators for medical professionals, announces it has sold its 500th simulation system, with the installation of a HeartWorks TTE Mobile echocardiography skills simulator at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s Clinical Simulation Center. MedaPhor’s ScanTrainer and HeartWorks product ranges offer clinicians true-to-life…
Brand new centre for ultrasound education in the north east of England
MedaPhor is pleased to announce that Teesside University has chosen ScanTrainer as the core ultrasound training simulator for its brand new ultrasound simulation hub – Regional Ultrasound Simulation Centre. The centre will be the ultrasound education hub for the North East England region. The centre, located within Teesside University’s School of Health and Social Care,…