Graduate Education and Simulation Training for CBRNE Disasters Using a Multimodal Approach to Learning. Part 1: Education and Training from a Human-Performance Perspective
Abstract
The Chemical Casualty Care Division (CCCD) of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) approaches education and training from a human-performance perspective and uses an integrated multimodal approach that includes lectures, human actors, manikins, tabletop exercises, and computerized modeling and simulation. Part 1 of this two-part series provides a general overview of teaching at CCCD and explores the science underlying the human-performance model of learning. Topics to be examined include encoding of information by the brain, emotional-learning theory, the spectrum of stress, the sweet spot of the stress-performance curve, situational awareness, human error, anomalies of attention, and negative training. Teaching will also be examined from a boots on the ground perspective. Part 2 will discuss CCCD teaching from the perspectives of educators and students. A brief historical review of past practices representing a cholinergic crisis exercise using a nonhuman primate (NHP) will be presented as a benchmark for future manikin and computer training. The NHP exercise ended in November 2012 and was replaced with manikins.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA590741
Entities
People
- Charles G. Hurst
- Cindy A. Kronman
- Daniel E. Boehm
- James M. Madsen
- John C. Stich
- Peter J. Schultheiss
- Robyn B. Lee
- Shannon A. Stutler
- Timothy J. Byrne
Organizations
- United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense