Interactive Integrated Training System (IITS)

Mobilization of physicians and other medical personnel for military missions and operations creates a substantial training challenge. Large numbers of medical personnel with varying specialties are rapidly mobilized. These personnel often encounter medical problems outside their area of expertise with which they have little experience. This gap in existing knowledge and skills and the knowledge and skills demanded can result in inappropriate or inadequate medical care. A training system needs to be developed that can be rapidly deployed to a large number of users to augment their existing medical knowledge and skills allowing them to successfully complete their jobs once mobilized for missions and operations. Sapien Systems proposes to develop a proof-of-concept Interactive Integrated Training System (IITS). IITS will be an innovative, distributed Computer Based Training system to augment existing medical knowledge and skills through the integration of conceptual, procedural, and case-based instruction. An innovative approach will be applied to the case-based instruction through the addition of "simulation elements" and interactive problem solving designed to pinpoint and address flaws in the student's knowledge or decision-making.