CMI Fundamentals

What sets the CMI apart from other pedological techniques is that the CMI includes a case study with a creative storyline. When creating the creative storyline, CMI creators should include the following components:

• Character Development: Consider who the characters of the story will be. Characters should have a name and narrative that will develop as the case unfolds.

In the original CMI, Guy Driver was developed as a retired clinical lab scientist from the Hudson Illinois Police Force, who utilized his training to solve medical cases. Other characters where developed around Guy to present medical case studies to the reader. For example, Eugene Stone was developed as a retired athletic trainer who guided Guy Driver and his granddaughter, Olivia, through a musculoskeletal evaluation to understand Olivia's recurrent knee pain.

• Creative Narrative: The storyline should be developed to guide the reader through a step-wise iteration to solve the case. This creative narrative should provide enough detail for the reader to visualize the scene and understand the characters. The addition of dialogue to the story helps the reader also identify how characters interact with each other.

• Problem-Based Learning: The case should leave gaps in the case for the students to solve. This may include not giving full detail of a procedure and then asking the students to look up the procedure, or forcing students to go into research literature.

Students should have opportunities to practice hard and soft skills within the CMI. The CMI should be developed with particular skills in mind that the creator wishes the students to learning through the process.

• Hard skills are objectifiable skills that are normally assessed within an academic program. Within athletic training, these skills may be manual muscle testing, obtaining blood pressure, or creating a rehabilitation program.

• Soft skills are less objectifiable but are skills that attribute to individuals being able to respond under non-routine or in high-social interaction circumstances. These skills include communication, team work, and leadership.

The CMI should provide opportunities for students to design, develop, and presents deliverables specific to the desired skills of the CMI creator. Potential deliverables include:

• Writing a discussion response to an open-ended question

• Producing a presentation or pamphlet related to a particular medical condition

• Creating a instructions for a patient to follow

• Role-playing in front of the class