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Multi-system contract awarded at Mohawk College in Canada

MedaPhor Group plc (AIM: MED), the global provider of advanced ultrasound training simulators for medical professionals, has won a multi-system ScanTrainer and HeartWorks contract at Mohawk College in Canada. The college, which runs the largest sonography programme in Canada and which had already purchased two ScanTrainer systems in 2014, is installing a further two ScanTrainers and two HeartWorks systems into its new simulation facility.

Based at the college's Centre for Health Care Simulation, a new educational and training facility built in collaboration with McMaster University, the simulators will be embedded into the general sonography and cardiac imaging curricula to offer students greater access to experiential learning opportunities and both common and rare pathology outside of the clinical setting.

Wendy Lawson, Associate Dean, Allied Health, at Mohawk College, commented: "A growing skills gap, rising student numbers and a decline in clinical learning opportunities has made simulation the obvious solution for us to help fulfil our educational objectives. ScanTrainer students can be introduced to practical scanning techniques much earlier on in their learning which, in turn, increases their confidence levels and improves practical application of those skills in real patient care settings."

Thomas Brown, VP Sales at MedaPhor North America, Inc. commented: "This is one of the most significant contract wins for MedaPhor. Customers are recognising the value of our ScanTrainer and HeartWorks multi-disciplinary product offering that can enhance educational outcomes for their students. Mohawk is truly innovative in its approach to education and boasts the largest sonography cohort in Canada, making this a truly exciting institution to be working with."

The Centre for Health Care Simulation officially opens on October 10th 2017. For more information visit: https://www.thespec.com/news-story/7231397-mohawk-college-gets-2-3-million-for-health-care-simulation-lab/ 

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For more information on Mohawk College visit www.mohawkcollege.ca 

About Mohawk

Mohawk College educates and serves 30,000 full-time, part-time, apprenticeship and international students at three campuses and two City School locations at the Eva Rothwell Resource Centre and the Central Public Library in Hamilton, Ontario. Mohawk has ranked first among all Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area colleges in student satisfaction for six consecutive years and first in graduate satisfaction for the past four years. Mohawk ranks 15thamong all colleges in Canada for applied research activity and has been named among Canada's greenest employers and the region's top employers for the past three years.

About MedaPhor (www.medaphor.com)

MedaPhor (AIM: MED) is a global developer of advanced ultrasound skills training simulators for medical professionals. Founded in 2004, the Company is headquartered in Cardiff, UK and Atlanta, USA, with over 500 customers in 45 countries around the world.

The Company owns three of the world's leading ultrasound training and examination simulators - ScanTrainer, ScanTrainer Examine and HeartWorks:

ScanTrainer is an ultrasound simulator and CPD platform offering transvaginal & transabdominal ultrasound education. It offers trainees an immersive, 24/7 self-directed learning experience allowing faster knowledge and skills acquisition at any stage of an ultrasound trainee's learning pathway.

Features include real feel haptic feedback, real full-anatomy scans, real-time expert guidance via ScanTutor, structured curriculum learning, metric-based assessment and a range of cloud-based features, including the unique ability for a doctor to upload their own patient cases onto the simulator.

ScanTrainer Examine is a cloud-based ultrasound diagnostic skills training simulator. It offers a library of over 500 pathologies and normal patient scans to help medical practitioners learn key diagnostic skills. ScanTrainer Examine also enables ultrasound educationalists to use the simulator as a virtual patient skills assessment tool for examination and certification.

HeartWorks is recognised globally as the leading simulation solution for education in echocardiography, cardiac anatomy and lung ultrasound. Developed by consultant cardiac anaesthetists at University College London Hospital, it is unrivalled for quality, accuracy, and realism in the teaching of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography.

From the development of the most anatomically correct and realistic 3D heart to a range of fully interactive manikin based simulators, HeartWorks remains at the cutting edge of simulation technology with a growing portfolio of simulation products for clinical skills acquisition and assessment that help prepare clinicians to deliver quality care to their patients.