Medical simulation provides real world situations that allow healthcare professionals and those in training to learn critical skills while receiving feedback from faculty and peers. Spiritual Assessment is a skill that we believe can be practiced through patient simulation. In conjunction with the Simulation Training Center at UC San Diego School of Medicine and thanks to the support of the Cambia Health Foundation, standardized patient materials have been developed for each of the three Spiritual AIM core spiritual needs.
Full cases with background, instruction/training for actors and faculty scoring sheets are available by contacting the authors of the manual. The cases are not currently published so that future students will have the opportunity to participate without having had access to background information that might compromise their learning experience.
