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Simulation in Pain and Palliative Care

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Pain medicine and palliative care are diverse and challenging fields with overlapping disciplines that include anesthesiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, psychiatry, and geriatrics. In order to achieve a high degree of fidelity in simulating the complex multidisciplinary fields of pain medicine and palliative care, simulation curricula must encompass multiple modalities, such as interpersonal interactions utilizing standardized patients, procedure-based part-task trainers, as well as rare occurrence management on full human patient simulators. This chapter will review the state of simulation-based education in pain medicine and palliative care, outline future directions, and present an example of complex multimodal simulation that addresses the needs of trainees and practicing physicians in these fields.

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    Yury Khelemsky MD & Jason Epstein MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

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    Adam I. Levine MD

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    Samuel DeMaria Jr. MD , Andrew D. Schwartz MD  & Alan J. Sim MD ,  & 

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Khelemsky, Y., Epstein, J. (2013). Simulation in Pain and Palliative Care. In: Levine, A.I., DeMaria, S., Schwartz, A.D., Sim, A.J. (eds) The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5993-4_34

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