MedSim Trainer
The military medical community lacks realistic training models, simulations, and scenarios to support the wide range of missions with which it must cope. The civilian medical community is even less capable of addressing its training and simulation requirements, in many cases, relying wholly on locally or military-developed programs to train personnel to cope with potential terrorist situations. Consequently, both military and civilian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) training exercises are routinely small-scale affairs that focus on the procedural aspects of medical training such as casualty evacuation, triage, and decontamination within limited parameters rather on developing the high-level decision-making skills necessary to recognize and assess the nuclear, biological and chemical threat. There is therefore a requirement for a deployable cognitive NBC training system that provides both the necessary decision-making training for medical teams to accurately assess the nuclear, biological, and chemical threats and support decision-making during operational deployments.
In response, Bevilacqua developed the MedSim Trainer for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The system, developed as a preliminary prototype, applies automated cognitive reasoning and adaptive tutoring principles to produce a mission-oriented simulation and rehearsal system that provides medical team members with the training necessary to support operational and training NBC threat assessments, decision making, and team coordination.
Example Scenario for the MedSim Trainer
- Description:
Sarin chemical scenario will be used for the demo
- Summary:
A terrorist group deploys 8 gallons of sarin in pressurized metal containers with aerosol release valves inside the Mall of Georgia at Atlanta, Georgia. This is a big scale chemical attack in a highly populated area, which leads to a major disaster. The response should be addressed from the local level up to the federal level.
- Objective:
The scenario is designed to touch on the following areas:
- Direction and control
- Notification and activation
- Communications
- Warning and emergency public information
- Hazard assessment
- Management of field response
- Questions:
There are questions asked after certain events or responses for the trainee to reason in depth. The trainer should guide the response reasoning process with the solution tips from the MedSim database. The questions are designed to help the trainee understand the types of issues that he/she will encounter and the conflicts across agencies and jurisdictions that can occur in coordinating, communicating, and responding to such an incident.
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