Background
a medical student counsels a standardized patient
A Standardized Patient (SP) is a person carefully recruited and trained to take on the characteristics of a real patient thereby affording the student an opportunity to learn and to be evaluated on learned skills in a simulated clinical environment.
During an interaction with a student the SP may:
- present case history in response to questioning by the student
- undergo a limited physical examination at the student's direction
- assist students in developing their communication and clinical skills
- assist students in working through difficult emotional situations in a safe environment
- Learning to give necessary medical news
People from the community who are interested in contributing to the development of health care professionals may be chosen to work as SPs. These individuals are carefully recruited and trained.
The SP Program at U of L School of Medicine employs SP in a variety of roles, including:
- Standardized Patient (SP) – a trained layperson who engages in a case-based scenario with a health care learner
- Physical Exam Teaching Associate (PETA) – an SP who is trained to teach discreet physical exam maneuvers to health care learners
- Peer Mentor – an experience SP who provides guidance to other SPs
- Gynecological Teaching Associate (GTA) – an SP who uses their own body to teach health care learners to conduct a sensitive and thorough examination of the breasts, vulva, vagina, cervix, uterus, and ovaries
- Urogenital Teaching Associate (UTA) – an SP who uses their own body to teach health care learners to conduct a sensitive and thorough examination penis, scrotum, testicles, and rectum
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