MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE PROGRAM (MCP) FOR STUDENTS

The key to success in simulation training is integrating it into traditional education programmes. Teamwork training conducted in the simulated environment may also offer an additive benefit to the traditional didactic instruction, enhance performance, and possibly also reduce errors.

There are also scenario writers for these simulation cases. These writers can customize the scenarios for interdisciplinary team training and role-playing to highlight or facilitate certain roles of team interaction. These scenarios should be realistic, practical, and comprehensive. Scenarios would usually also have event triggers, environmental distractors, and supporting events. They should be developed systematically with proficiency-based assessment in place, which can emphasize integrative team performance as well as technical performance.

All practice and action should also be validated by data and evidence to reach the top of the mountain, the students must overcome the hurdles thrown at them by mother nature. Through the activities of pitching tents and navigating tricky passages, the students learn about teamwork. Overcoming physical obstacles of the wilderness teaches them to be independent and LATERAL THINKERS.

Every day the most important activity is reflection on the entire day, which helps to get updates on the day-by-day outcomes of the simulation. The students sit in silence and reflect on their trek, life, and the moment. This moment of introspection is very relevant in helping students discover their strengths and weaknesses.

The mix of experience and reflection is what makes experiential learning a highly effective tool for transformation of a character to a personality.