Whether it’s pandemic-driven closures/reopenings or the result of shifting institutional priorities, or increasing class sizes, simulation programs need to find new ways to deliver educational value across a wide range of dynamic challenges. In this brief article, we are going to share some first principles based recommendations on how to make your center better prepared…

Virtual Patients are experiencing a second renaissance. Conceptualized in the 1970s the virtual patient as a ‘human-replicant’ was closer to science fiction than reality, but what became attainable in the 90s and early 2000s was clickable multimedia experiences with various levels of interactivity (think the menu-driven, static screen patient). Not quite the ‘digital human’ that…