Throughout the past decade, emergency medicine educators have watched, perhaps with some apprehension, information essential to the practice of our specialty grow exponentially in breadth and depth. New developments are rapidly layered on top of an already thick strata of knowledge: new laboratory and imaging tests that must be interpreted and incorporated into increasingly complex decisionmaking; new drugs with indications, interactions, and toxicities; new procedural skills; more guidelines and protocols; mandated programs in professionalism and other competencies; and complicated, ever-expanding systems, from computerized hospitals to evolving government agencies. The educator’s task is to ensure that resident physicians acquire most of the new and existing knowledge, skills, and attitudes of emergency medicine in the restricted duration of a residency. And that has become an insurmountable challenge. A Comprehensive Medical Simulation Education Curriculum for Emergency Medicine ResidentsAnnals of Emergency MedicineVol. 49Issue 4PreviewMedical simulation allows trainees to experience realistic patient situations without exposing patients to the risks inherent in trainee learning and is adaptable to situations involving widely varying clinical content. Although medical simulation is becoming more widely used in medical education, it is typically used as a complement to existing educational strategies. Our approach, which involved a complete curriculum redesign to create a fully integrated medical simulation model with an “all at once” implementation, represents a significant departure from conventional graduate medical education models. Full-Text PDF