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249: 306: 33: 500: 427:: SPs can provide a longitudinal experience and enable students to follow through patients over time, even in a compressed time frame of examination. One technique employed in SP encounters is the use of information cards. When the trainee or examinee articulates the need for an examination or a laboratory test, the SP hands him/her a small card with the results of that exam/test, and the encounter can continue. 261:
professional conduct in potentially embarrassing situations such as pelvic or breast exams. SPs who perform such training are given titles such as Gynecological Teaching Associate (GTA) or Urological Teaching Associate (UTA), as covered in more detail below. SPs are also used extensively in testing of clinical skills of students, usually as a part of an
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For teaching future healthcare professionals how to perform intimate examinations, a specially trained simulated patient may be used. Intimate examinations include breast and pelvic examination on females and urogenital, prostate and rectal examination on males. Such roles are known by various names.
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SPs need to draw on their own personal experiences with physicians, conversations with healthcare professionals, talking to specific patient populations etc. They also need to be trained to accurately and reliably simulate particular clinical scenarios. Frequent quality assessment may be needed to
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Simulated patients (SP) are extensively used in medical and nursing education to allow students to practice and improve their clinical and conversational skills for an actual patient encounter. SPs commonly provide feedback after such encounters. They are also useful to train students to learn
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in the United States, for both foreign medical graduates and American medical students. Since 2004 SPs have been used to assess the clinical competencies of osteopathic medical school candidates in the COMLEX USA Level 2-Performance Evaluation.
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Isaak, Robert; Chen, Fei; Hobbs, Gene; Martinelli, Susan M.; Stiegler, Marjorie; Arora, Harendra (2016). "Standardized Mixed-Fidelity Simulation for ACGME Milestones Competency Assessment and Objective Structured Clinical Exam Preparation".
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At the same time, SPs are case specific and are able to assess clinical competency in a limited area only. Multiple encounters may be needed for broad ranged training or testing. Also, while SPs are quite proficient in simulating the
433:: SP encounters allow students to learn about situations they may not be able to manage alone in a real clinical setting, or where the use of a real patient may be inappropriate. For example, counseling a cancer patient. 179:
The SP can also contribute to the development and improvement of healthcare protocols; especially in cases where input from the SP are based on extensive, first-hand experience and observations as a clinical
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Irwin, P.M., Brown, R.A. and Butler, S. (2021), "The undergraduate simulation framework: standardising design and delivery", Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 576-586.
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Irwin, P., Butler, S., & Brown, R. A. (2023). Implementing the undergraduate simulation framework for large nursing cohorts: A program evaluation. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 80, 1-8.
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ensure consistency in the portrayal of the patient role; especially since SPs may absorb a significant amount of clinical knowledge from their interactions with healthcare professionals.
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One form of instruction is where a medical professional, a preceptor, teaches the medical student how to perform the examination using a simulated patient as the model.
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projects. They can also assist in the development of seminars and lectures in an academic setting, under the supervision of full or associate professors.
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SPs can also serve as a "confederate" in a simulation to perform the roles of other clinicians within the care team. SPs used for
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SPs have also been sent unannounced into a physician practices to evaluate the standards of care. They are also employed as
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patient. Dr. Barrows also developed a checklist that the SP could use to evaluate the performance of the trainee. Dr.
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in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. Simulated patients have been successfully utilized for
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For nursing, SPs are successfully supporting large cohorts of students in the undergraduate curricula.
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Proceedings of the 14th Annual Association of Standardized Patient Educators Annual Scientific Meeting
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exam in 1998 to test the clinical skills of foreign medical graduates. This exam is now the
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using two SP confederates as a nurse and surgeon for anesthesia resident training
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The largest limitation of simulated patients use can be their cost.
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was the first to use SPs in a licensure examination in 1993. The
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Jill Thistlethwaite; Jonathan Silverman; George Ridgway (2006).
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Transforming Nursing Education Through Problem-based Learning
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Suzanne M. Kurtz; Jonathan Silverman; Juliet Draper (2005).
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trained another set of standardized patients in 1970 at the
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Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine
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The use of simulated patients has several advantages:
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simulation activities may require special training.
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