Role1 / PFC_EDGE — Student Instructions

What Is This?

Role1 is a guideline-informed clinical reasoning and decision-support tool for medical providers working in prolonged care and austere environments, where evacuation is delayed and resources are limited.

PFC_EDGE is the simulation engine built into Role1. When you start a scenario, Role1 becomes the simulator: it presents the patient, responds to your actions, and tracks how the patient changes over time.

Role1 runs as a web app. Open the link — no account or sign-in is needed. For background, read What is Role1? For the full guide, read How to Use Role1.

How a Session Works

Open the link to the Role1 app and start a new session.
Pick a scenario:
- Easy
- Hard
- Peds
Enter your certification level (for example EMT-P, 68W, PA, NP, MD/DO, CCRN) and your experience level (novice, intermediate, or experienced). This step applies to scenarios — clinical decision support without a scenario asks nothing and opens straight away.
The vignette for your scenario appears. Read it — it is all you know about the patient to start with.
Manage the patient by typing your actions and decisions. Examine the patient to get examination findings; request ultrasound, laboratory tests, ECG, or radiography when you need them. If you want Role1’s guidance, ask for it directly — it is your clinical decision tool inside the simulation as well as the simulator itself.
Time advances only when you ask it to. Say “I am reassessing the patient” or “advance the time”. Each reassessment may represent several hours of clinical time.
When the scenario ends — the patient stabilizes for transport, the patient dies, or you declare the exercise complete — Role1 generates your After Action Report as a downloadable .docx file.

Your Report

Your After Action Report contains no identifying information about you. We would really appreciate it if you emailed a copy to Prolonged.Sim@gmail.com — we want to see how you did, how PFC_EDGE did, and how we can improve prolonged care and AI clinical decision tools. You can ignore the report; it is deleted along with your scenario when you close your session. It is simply a description of the care you rendered.

Send us any feedback you want about your experience!

Role1 is a tool designed by Transatlantic Medical, intended to support clinical decision-making in remote and austere environments. PFC_EDGE was conceived and designed by the M3-EDGE team, a group of military clinicians with experience and training in prolonged and austere care.

Educational use only. Not medical advice.