AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING-ENVIRONMENT FOR HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS

This article summarizes experiences to date with building and deployin g a clinical simulator that medical students use as part of a 3rd year primary care rotation. The simulated microworld helps students and he alth care professionals gain experience with and learn meta-cognitive skills for the care of complex patient populations that require treatm ent in the biopsychosocial-value dimensions. We explain lessons learne d and next steps resulting from use of the program by over 300 users t o date.