COVID19 RESEARCH

A Scenario-Based Strategy

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I feel that it’s important to find innovative ways to implement education in every context. One way that medical facilitates incorporate education is through the use of scenario-based education. A great deal of medical simulation is linked to experiential education which I feel is transferable to other learning contexts. I also feel the pedagogy of simulation can be expanded upon to meet other scientific objectives that are found within medicine. I’m mostly interested in developing the framework of simulation education and am a contributing member to multiple working groups tasked with implementing structured simulation frameworks withing healthcare education.

I noticed that scenario-based education could facilitate continuous training for the coronavirus pandemic and implementation of new training. We started by piloting a lung simulator to facilitate education for ventilatory management, and then implemented scenario-based training in austere environments to facilitate resuscitation of crashing patients while medical evacuation arrived. This is one piece of the puzzle, but I hope to continue to help improve the process.

It’s important to note experiential learning is a student-based paradigm which is in align with a progressive style of education that allows for the learner to explore their own reasoning for solving a problem (Kolb et. al, 2011).

Source

Kolb, D. A., Mainemelis, C., & Boyatzis, R. E. (2011). 9/Experiential Learning Theory: Previous Research and New Directions. In S. Robert & L. Zhang (Eds.), Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles (pp. 228-229). New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.