The Standardized Patient Program has a toolkit to help you get started with building an effective methodology for using an SP within your curriculum.
This toolkit includes checklists for:• Curriculum development• Case/scenario development• Evaluation and research• Debriefing• Feedback
The SPP will help you determine your learning or behavioural objectives and the format to best facilitate those objectives, be it one-on-one, small group, peer feedback, class presentations, etc. The SPP will even help you develop and implement an evaluation process.
Contact [email protected] to get started.
• Over 200 professionally trained Standardized Patients available• Database of case experiences including simulations in:
- Orthopaedics- Mental health- Neurology- Women's health- Cultural diversity- Ethics/moral dilemmas- Sexuality- Family medicine- Internal medicine- Obesity- Dental health - Smoking cessation
Give yourself a minimum of 3 weeks to bring an SP into your curriculum. This allows time to professionally recruit, train and rehearse scenarios.
HEALTHSCIENCES COUNCILU N I V E R S I T Y O F A L B E R T A
For preferred University of Alberta rates, contact:
Pam Rock, DirectorStandardized Patient ProgramHealth Sciences Education and Research CommonsUniversity of Alberta300 Campus Tower8625 - 112 StreetEdmonton, ABT6G 1K8ph: 780.492.6182fax: [email protected]
www.healthscience.ualberta.ca
Incorporate a University of Alberta Standardized Patient into your teaching to give your students the benefit of a patient encounter in a safe environment.
Over 200 Standardized Patients (SPs) have been coached to recreate a patient's history, personality and physical findings in a realistic and consistent way.
Use Standardized Patients to build your students’:• Clinical skills• Interview skills• History taking skills• Physical examination skills• Ethical skills and tact in awkward or sensitive situations• Conflict resolution• General interpersonal skills
• SPs create an authentic experience • Contact with a simulated patient helps reduce student anxiety• SPs provide objective and educated patient feedback• SPs create a consistent and accurate experience for all students• Focus is on the student's performance• SPs tolerate more students than actual patients
• Provides reproducible, reliable experience for all students• Allows for teaching and evaluation of core skills
• Provides qualitative feedback about student performance and applied skills• Allows direct and standardized comparison of students' clinical skills• Reinforces curricular goals
Advantages to Students:
Advantages to Educational Programs:
• Creates an active learning environment
“The Simulated/Standardized Patient is a person who has been carefully coached to simulate an actual patient so accurately that the simulation cannot be detected by a skilled clinician...the SP presents the gestalt of the patient...not just the history, but the body language, the physical findings, and the emotional and personality characteristics as well.”
Dr. Howard Barrows
