DODI 3000.05 "Stability Operations" and DODI 6000.16 "Military Health Support for Stability Operations" both state that Stability Operations and Medical Stability Operations (MSO) respectively "shall be given priority comparable to combat operations and be explicitly addressed and integrated across all Military Health System (MHS) activities." In current operations, inexperienced military medical officers are increasingly asked to perform at a high level in stability operations requiring interaction with international government (IGO), non-governmental (NGO), and interagency personnel to achieve the mission. Traditional medical school curricula at The Uniformed Services University and other medical curricula at specific military service schools have only addressed MSO minimally, if at all, while maintaining their traditional focus on medical support of combat operations. Additionally, traditional curricula have relied on lecture based teaching methodologies to address this important content area, which has been shown to have low efficacy and unreliable outcomes for long term retention and application in the field. These effects combined with the inherent difficulty in teaching attitude based learning objectives result in military physicians being ill-prepared for the challenges faced in MSO deployments.

OPERATION LOST PARADISE is a low-technology, low-cost solution to for interactive medical education using a classroom based simulation that addresses IGO-NGO-Interagency-Military coordination in the operational environment. The exercise is modeled after the popular party game, "How to Host a Murder Mystery" and uses a novel application of role-play on a negotiation platform to guide students through critical learning objectives in an adult discovery learning experience. This presentation will describe in detail the methodology, lessons learned, and initial outcomes assessment of the OPERATION LOST PARADISE exercise for military medical student education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. This methodology has applicability across the full spectrum of military, governmental, and civil organizations for training and preparation for Stability Operations in all disciplines and is a feasible approach to effective training in today's cost-constrained training environment.