Thursday, February 6, 2003 TODAY
School of Allied Health Professions news
Physician assistant program acquires new technology
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| The CardioSim Digital Heart Sound Simulator is available to physician assistant and respiratory care students. |
Thanks to negotiations with publisher C.V. Mosby, Robert Wilkins, PhD,
RRT, chair of the department of cardiopulmonary sciences, helped bring
a new CardioSim Digital
Heart Sound Simulator—a $25,000 piece of equipment—to the physician
assistant program in the department of cardiopulmonary sciences, School of Allied
Health Professions.
As contributing editor of Lung Sounds: A Practical Guide, published by C.V. Mosby,
Dr. Wilkins recognized the value of this book and its accompanying CD to the
classroom. Co-editors John E. Hodgkin, MD, and Brad Lopez, EdD, RRT, also believed
in the project. The three had seen the need for a text like this for some time.
Drs. Wilkins, Hodgkin, and Lopez were convinced that it would be used by educators
in respiratory care and pulmonary medicine across the country. But Mosby wasn’t
convinced—then.
After multiple translations and a second edition in 1995, Mosby is asking for
a third edition. But Dr. Wilkins decided the book needed to be expanded to include
heart sounds since many allied health, medical, and nursing students are being
called on to auscultate the heart as well as the lungs.
In his negotiations with Mosby for financial support of the third edition, Dr.
Wilkins made arrangements for the purchase of the simulator. This will be housed
in the department of cardiopulmonary sciences and will be available to physician
assistant and respiratory care students, significantly enhancing the training
process that they receive in preparation to enter their chosen profession.
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