Training future hospitalists with simulators: A needed step toward accessible, expertly performed bedside procedures

in this issue of the Journal, after 3years of training in all types of patient care units, residents of-ten count their accumulated experience on their fingers andtoes. Such sparse experience hardly leads to expertise. Recog-nizing this pervasive lack of training the American Board ofInternal Medicine narrowed its certification requirements forbedside procedures in 2006.