Convey the reality and complexity of clinical work

• It is important to characterize what it is like to work in a hospital (or in a physician's practice, etc.) and to make the story as real as possible.

Create interest and increase motivation

• Being directly involved increases motivation. Therefore, the student is in the position of the responsible physician.
  

For example: “You are a physician in a university hospital and you just started your shift when your first patient comes in…”

• Keep the perspective consistent: avoid changing or quitting the student's role in the case.
• Use humor reasonably and without exaggeration.

Implement targets concerning social skills

• Describe the patient as an individual person and give him an appropriate name (do not give the patient funny or unrealistic names).
• Include psychological and social aspects of the patient's situation: let the patient speak, e.g. by presenting a conversation, by bringing out what the patient thinks and feels about his condition. This can be done with text, audio or video.
• Characterize cooperative teamwork.