Texas A&M System licenses Pulse!! to BreakAway Ltd.The Texas A&M University System has granted an exclusive license to a Maryland company to commercialize Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab, a game-based software platform for medical education conceived, researched and produced at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Preliminary research shows Pulse!! user-friendlyPulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab is a user-friendly virtual learning platform that learners would recommend to others, according to preliminary usability and playability field testing at two prestigious institutions of medical education.

Pulse!! research results to be released at medical education conferencePreliminary research results for Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab will be presented Jan. 29 at the 16th annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Medical Education Conference (MMVR) in Long Beach, Calif., by principal investigator Claudia L. McDonald, Ph.D., and Jan Cannon-Bowers, Ph.D., who heads the Pulse!! evaluation team.

Center director to demonstate Pulse!! at ACS Clinical CongressDr. Claudia L. Johnston. Associate Vice President for Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, will demonstrate Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab at the prestigious Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons convening Oct. 7-11 in New Orleans, La.

Pulse!! field tests begin at Johns HopkinsField testing for the Pulse!! learning platform, a research and development project at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, is scheduled to begin Monday, Aug. 28, at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.

Pulse!! field tests continue at NNMC, slated for HopkinsField testing for the Pulse!! learning platform, a research and development project at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, began June 11 at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Md., and is scheduled to begin Aug. 28 at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.

Pulse!! platform introduced at national meetingsPulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab has been introduced at major meetings around the country since May, including a two-day meeting of the Division of Education of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for a “Summit on the Use of Simulation in Continuing Education in Surgery.”

Pulse!! demonstrated at American College of Surgeons spring meeting Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has been invited to showcase Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab during the American College of Surgeons spring meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., April 23-25.

A&M-Corpus Christi VP to make EDUCAUSE presentationDr. Claudia L. Johnston, Associate Vice President for Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, will make a presentation at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference in Austin.

Pulse!! field testing begins at Yale School of MedicineThe first phase of field testing the Pulse!! learning platform, a military research project at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, has begun at three prestigious medical institutions.