Prolonged Field Care Podcast20 Nov 2025

PFC Podcast: Training Scars

The conversation explores the importance of balancing realism and learning in training scenarios, particularly in medical training. It emphasizes the limitations of achieving true realism in training and the potential negative effects of unrealistic training scenarios.

Takeaways

You want to balance realism and learning in training scenarios.

You can't be trying to pop dudes' cherries in training.

You can get pretty close with like force-on-force type stuff.

You're often going to get into the unwinnable gotcha scenarios that have an incredibly negative training effect.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Training Philosophy

00:30 Building Confidence in Medical Training

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