ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the concept of high-fidelity clinical simulation, and its possible applications in the field of cancer and palliative care education. Healthcare has been profoundly hesitant to embrace the possible advantages of simulation for training staff in the management of rare or infrequently experienced events. The drive to create an accurate representation of the human form for teaching purposes has been predominantly driven by the anaesthetic community across the globe. The main advantage of utilising human simulators is that the 'patient' cannot experience any harm at the hands of the learners, while repeated multiple pathogenic conditions can be recreated for educational purposes. The use of high-fidelity simulators within the working environment, or as part of a teaching facility such as a college or university, has its limitations. Providing the operating requirements of the simulator in terms of piped medical gases limits their use to purpose-built clinical simulation centres.
