title: Recent advances in scenario-based training for medical education.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To summarize recent thinking about how to best design simulations and other virtual environments in medical education and training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On the basis of work done in a military context, I describe an approach to scenario-based training and provide a conceptual framework in which developmental activities can be organized. This approach emphasizes the linkages among learning objectives, scenario events, performance measures, instructional strategies and feedback in creating effective scenario-based training.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In presenting this framework, I hope that medical educators and practitioners can have a deeper appreciation for how to best design and implement scenario-based training.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. jancb@mail.ucf.edu
authors.forename: Janis A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cannon-Bowers
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D018961:Educational Technology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*