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Figure 3: Procedure on Saturdays: The host is in the main session and expects the tutors who join him or her approx. 45 minutes before the planned start. In each break-out session there is one tutor and one psychologist to join each session. In the meantime, student assistants, actors and simulated patients join the meeting and are allocated to the respective break-out sessions. The student assistants use a split screen in order to display the assignments for the respective cases. 20 minutes before the start the participants join the meeting and are allocated to their break-out sessions. When the first case starts, the simulated patients are allocated to their respective break-out sessions. The host switches back to the main session and is now responsible for keeping the time schedule. The simulated patients have to leave their break-out session at a scheduled point of time. If they do not leave the room on time they are removed by the host. At the switch only the simulated patients leave the break-out sessions and tutors, psychologists and participants remain in their allocated break-out session. After the last case the student assistants, actor trainers and simulated patients each independently leave their break-out-session and all participants and tutors return to the main session. Then, the participants are seen off. There is a short final discussion with the tutors, then the host ends the meeting for all and the course day is terminated. (P = participant; PSY = psychologist; MT =medical tutor; StA = student assistant; SP =simulated patients)