A Future Vision

Nearly a decade ago many echoed David Gaba’s predictions about the future of healthcare simulation: it would either be embraced, embedded, and extensively applied, or it would fail to meet expectations or improve patient outcomes and fall into obscurity. Today it is clear which path simulation has taken (even this textbook is a testament to that), and we ask now, just how far and how widely healthcare simulation will spread and what its real impact will be. As editors, it has become apparent, having read each chapter in this book, that the application of simulation in the healthcare industry is limitless, and therefore, its impact cannot be overstated. With the assistance of many of the authors of this text, we frame this brief chapter as a future vision of simulation, contemplating the extent to which simulation will grow.