Hughes, MaryGerstner, BrettBona, Anna M.Falvo, LaurenHobgood, CherriAhmed, Rami A.2020-11-162020-11-162020-09-25Hughes, M., Gerstner, B., Bona, A., Falvo, L., Hobgood, C., & Ahmed, R. A. (2020). Death notification: A digital communication platform for simulated patient-based training with medical students. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning (BMJ STEL). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjstel-2020-0006532056-6697https://hdl.handle.net/1805/24428This article is made available for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or be any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.Medical simulation experiences, focused on enhancing essential communication skills, provide high value to trainees. These communication-based simulations often require little equipment and instead use trained faculty facilitators who can impart clinical significance and expertise to trainees. Teaching communication skills and techniques remotely is theoretically possible but has been largely unexplored in medical education.1 The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent restrictions imposed by shelter-in-place orders and social distancing created a need to expand traditional training methods and experiment with remote simulation training for communication skills. In this brief report, we explore the experience, outcomes and barriers to implementing a simulated communication skill curriculum focused on death notification to a cohort of remote medical students.en-USPublic Health EmergencyCOVID-19Medical EducationMedical SimulationVirtual LearningArticle