Have you ever observed a simulation event and asked what the event plan was? Did you receive a puzzled look and maybe a cocked eyebrow when you asked the question? Event design is crucial for a successful immersive learning experience.

Deborah C. German, MD, Julia Pet-Armacost, PhD, Richard D. Peppler, PhD, and Juan Cendan, MD suggest that if medical students are taught through "behavior activation" approaches, such a change can have a profound impact on improving the quality of care provided by our future doctors.

Ali Alkhulaif, MD, Ian Julie, MD, Joseph Barton, MD, MHMS, FACEP, Erin Nagle, Pharm D, BCPS, and Aubrey Yao, MD discuss how interdisciplinary team in situ simulation in a real patient care setting is a valuable tool to identify needs and to promote effective communication, technical skills and process improvement...

Dr. Paul A. Wetter stresses the importance of team training and simulation exercises and looking to new innovations in education and training.

Robert Hester, PhD. and colleagues are developing a software simulation program for healthcare education, Osler One that enhances medical knowledge, professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, ethics, and systems-based practice. Clinical medicine involves caring for both chronic and acute conditions. Medical simulations routinely address acute conditions such as hemorrhage, heart attack,...

Dr. Thomas Talbot shares ideas for enhancing the Electronic Medical Record to act as a didactic tool to support physician competency. Although we have fantastic lifelike manikins, virtual reality surgeries, artificial intelligence models, engaging software simulators and even medical games, very little innovation has gone to the medical practice environment...

Dr. Howard Champion and Dr. Jan Cannon Bowers look at issues to be addressed to make simulation an integral part of experiential medical training.

MEdSim Magazine and the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Learning (CAMLS) sponsored a two-day conference in February that focused on five critical challenges facing medical education and training: Faculty development and retention.

KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, CENP educates and informs the community about the alliance. The purpose of the CSA is to become a cohesive voice for simulation in nursing education across the state, to disseminate information to stakeholders, and to establish a universal entity for simulation.

Richard Boyd asserts that we are seeing the start of the Century of Simulation and Human Intelligence use If you could manage to ignore the purveyors of even higher definition (4K) displays at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you could see the pattern emerge above the noise.