Palliative care in the emergency department: an educational investigation and intervention.

Background: To investigate the value of a novel simulation-based palliative care educational intervention within an emergency medicine (EM) residency curriculum.

Methods: A palliative care scenario was designed and implemented in the simulation program at an urban academic emergency department (ED) with a 3-year EM residency program. EM residents attended one of eight high-fidelity simulation sessions, in groups of 5-6.