Simulation in Medical Education for the Hospitalist: Moving Beyond the Mock Code.

ABSTRACT

Simulation in medical education has grown due to an evolution in health care. It uses 4 main modalities to re-create a situation from the clinical environment to allow experiential learning and improve patient care. Simulation must be considered as an educational strategy within a larger curriculum. Building an exercise requires first developing goals and objectives and then designing the scenario. There are 4 phases of implementation, wherein the final debrief phase is critical for learning. Educators have used simulation for multiple curricular needs communication skills, interprofessional education, clinical reasoning, procedural training, and patient safety, which apply to the inpatient setting.