Emese Elkind’s Team won 3rd place at the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute’s 2024 Next Generation of Medical Simulation Hackathon. At this hackathon, students from diverse backgrounds, in 16 teams, presented their ideas using a technical and scientific approach to solve the challenge: “Advanced fidelity of medical simulators or task trainers in a way that will allow learners in healthcare to optimize their skills before they are needed at the bedside.”
Emese and teammates Jade Warren, Aden Wong, and Réna Hajjar presented a project on injection administration training. The project was aimed to enhance the training process for injection administration and was inspired by the group’s visit to the Queen’s School of Medicine labs. Using optical tracking and open-source software, specifically 3DSlicer, the team created a visual guidance tool that helps students learn to administer injections at the correct needle angle, for optimal patient comfort and safety.
Congratulations, Emese and team!