Scenario Design
The IPE team has completed a few trainings on simulation and scenario design. Here are our key takeaways from the work completed so far.
1) Designing a case, designing a scenario, and designing a simulation are all different things.
2) Typically, scenarios are designed to immerse students in less frequent and high stakes situations.
3) It is important to fully understand how to design a scenario within one discipline before attempting to design a multidisciplinary scenario.
4) When designing a scenario for a simulation, the scenario isn’t long (15 minutes) and therefore it has to be designed in a way that the students can complete the simulation within that time frame.
5) The Bambini model for scenario design is a very useful approach and each scenario contains an initial phase, an intermediate phase, and a final phase.
6) Each scenario should include a ‘trigger’ that challenges the students to use their clinical reasoning skills in order to decide on an intervention plan.
In addition, the team has designed a 6-step guide called How to Design a Scenario and an accompanying tutorial. To access these, please use the following links.
To access the guide and lexicon, please use the following link.
To access the tutorial, please use the following link.
