Dan Raemer, PhD presented the Alan Hyman History of Anesthesia and Medicine Lecture at the famed Columbia University Department of Anesthesiology on September 4, 2014 in New York City. The talk was entitled, The History of Simulation in Graduate Medical Education, and posited a futuristic look at the history of this field. The Alan Hyman History Lecture has been presented in prior years by such anesthesiology legends as Leroy Van Dam, Richard Kitz, John Severinghaus, and Emanuel Papper.