Pulse!! at a glance
Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab has been developed since March 2005 by Dr. Claudia L. Mcdonald, Associate Vice President for Special Projects at A&M-Corpus Christi.
U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi (27th Congressional District), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Readiness and Miltary Construction, strongly endorses the project and has helped obtain almost $10 million in grants through the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va.
The Pulse!! project has brought together teams of top-notch medical experts and electronic game developers to produce a high-fidelity, persistent, immersive learning platform that will provide high-quality, case-based training for medical personnel similar in kind to flight-simulator training for military pilots.
The project's private-sector partner is BreakAway Ltd. of Hunt Valley, Md., a leader in modeling and simulation software used for developing computer games, innovative military and government training applications and highly advanced data visualization tools.
An international team of Pulse!! medical advisers includes experts in military medicine and medical education assessment.
