Enhancing Immersion with Contextualized Scenarios: Role-Playing in Prehospital Care Training

This paper discusses the method used in a field experiment with 12 paramedic teams (n=24) exploring how they perceive a novel training approach. Much simulation-based training in prehospital care is decontextualized, meaning that medical care is trained without taking other characteristics of prehospital care into account. In this paper we suggest how a richer setting (contextualization), which includes more of the complicating aspects of prehospital care, can be introduced and evaluated in prehospital training.