Highly realistic, immersive training for navy corpsmen: preliminary results

Highly realistic, immersive training has been developed for Navy corpsmen based on the success of the Infantry Immersion Trainer. This new training is built around scenarios that are designed to depict real-life, operational situations. Each scenario used in the training includes sights, sounds, sme...

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Published in:Military medicine 2014-12, Vol.179 (12), p.1439-1443
Main Authors: Booth-Kewley, Stephanie, McWhorter, Stephanie K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel
Casualties
Emergency Medical Technicians - education
Female
Humans
Immersion
Inservice Training - methods
Male
Military exercises
Military personnel
Military Personnel - education
Naval Medicine
Special effects
Students
Success
Thoracentesis
Training
United States
Warfare
Young Adult
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Summary:Highly realistic, immersive training has been developed for Navy corpsmen based on the success of the Infantry Immersion Trainer. This new training is built around scenarios that are designed to depict real-life, operational situations. Each scenario used in the training includes sights, sounds, smells, and distractions to simulate realistic and challenging combat situations. The primary objective of this study was to assess corpsmen participants' satisfaction with highly realistic training. The study sample consisted of 434 male Navy service members attending Field Medical Training Battalion-West, Camp Pendleton, California. Corpsmen participants completed surveys after receiving the training. Participants expressed high levels of satisfaction with the training overall and with several specific elements of the training. The element of the training that the corpsmen rated the highest was the use of live actors. The vast majority of the participants reported that the training had increased their overall confidence about being successful corpsmen and had strengthened their confidence in their ability to provide care under pressure. Additional research should extend highly realistic training to other military medical provider populations.
ISSN:0026-4075
1930-613X
DOI:10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00198