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Home Research Research Library Simulating Patients with Parallel Health State Networks Simulating Patients with Parallel Health State Networks 1998 Author(s) Sumner, W, Truszczynski, M, and Marek, V W Topic(s) Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Clinical Simulation Volume AMIA Symposium Source AMIA Symposium The American Board of Family Practice is developing a computer-based recertification process to generate patient simulations from a knowledge base. Simulated patients require a stochastically generated history and response to treatment, suggesting a Monte Carlo-like patient generation process. Knowledge acquisition experiments revealed that description of a patient’s overall health as a node in a Monte Carlo model was difficult for domain experts to use, severely limited knowledge reusability, and created a plethora of awkwardly defined health states. We explored a model in which patients traverse several parallel health state networks simultaneously, so that overall health is a vector describing the current nodes from every Parallel Network. This model has a reasonable biological basis, more easily defined data, and greatly improved reuse potential, at the cost of more complex simulation algorithms. Experiments using osteoarthritis stages, weight classification, and absence or presence of gastric ulcers as three Parallel Networks demonstrate the feasibility of this approach to simulating patients. ABFM Research Read all 2025 Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare Go to Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare 2022 Fostering Generalist Leaders in a Subspecialized World: Congratulations to an Expanded Cohort of New Pisacano Scholars Go to Fostering Generalist Leaders in a Subspecialized World: Congratulations to an Expanded Cohort of New Pisacano Scholars 2015 Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access Go to Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access 2024 Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary Go to Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary
Author(s) Sumner, W, Truszczynski, M, and Marek, V W Topic(s) Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Clinical Simulation Volume AMIA Symposium Source AMIA Symposium
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2025 Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare Go to Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare
2022 Fostering Generalist Leaders in a Subspecialized World: Congratulations to an Expanded Cohort of New Pisacano Scholars Go to Fostering Generalist Leaders in a Subspecialized World: Congratulations to an Expanded Cohort of New Pisacano Scholars
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2024 Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary Go to Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary