This project began with a failed handoff in hospital patient placement. The software, policies, workflows, and logistics could be taught. The judgment was harder to transfer.

That problem became the research question: what parts of operational judgment can be written into procedure, what parts depend on pattern recognition and mental models, and whether synthetic practice can help make tacit judgment more teachable.

Clinical reasoning is deliberately taught. Operational reasoning is often learned through years of experience. This project studies whether expert operational judgment can be made more visible, teachable, and transferable without reducing it to rigid formulas.

Hospitals are the first laboratory. The larger question is how people reason through complex operational systems when information is incomplete, pressure is moving, and action cannot wait for perfect certainty.