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 2026 Training Needs for Rural Primary Care Practice: A Scoping Review of Resident Physician Preparation Go to Training Needs for Rural Primary Care Practice: A Scoping Review of Resident Physician Preparation 2025 Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare Go to Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare 2021 Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic Go to Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic 2026 Reflections on Family Medicine’s First Year of Program Signals and Other New ERAS Features Go to Reflections on Family Medicine’s First Year of Program Signals and Other New ERAS Features
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
ABFM Research Read all 2026 Training Needs for Rural Primary Care Practice: A Scoping Review of Resident Physician Preparation Go to Training Needs for Rural Primary Care Practice: A Scoping Review of Resident Physician Preparation 2025 Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare Go to Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare 2021 Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic Go to Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic 2026 Reflections on Family Medicine’s First Year of Program Signals and Other New ERAS Features Go to Reflections on Family Medicine’s First Year of Program Signals and Other New ERAS Features
2026 Training Needs for Rural Primary Care Practice: A Scoping Review of Resident Physician Preparation Go to Training Needs for Rural Primary Care Practice: A Scoping Review of Resident Physician Preparation
2025 Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare Go to Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare
2021 Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic Go to Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic
2026 Reflections on Family Medicine’s First Year of Program Signals and Other New ERAS Features Go to Reflections on Family Medicine’s First Year of Program Signals and Other New ERAS Features
