Tony Errichetti has worked with standardized / simulated patients since 1992. Presently he is Director of Doctor-Patient Communication Assessment at the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners. He established patient simulation centers at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and NYIT-College of Osteopathic Medicine where he started the first MS program in Medical and Healthcare Simulation in the U.S. He started the Simulationist Narrative Medicine Community with Virginia Drda of the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences where they hold conversations with simulation professionals about writing and art.