title: The power of scenario.
abstract: Teaching wilderness medicine to medical students comes alive when nontraditional methods are used. In our wilderness medicine elective at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the teaching is primarily experientially based. The following anecdote illustrates the magic that can happen when teaching is done via the scenario-debriefing method.
authors: Wilderness Medicine Course, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, USA.
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authors: Houghton
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D009051:Mountaineering; D016544:Patient Simulation