Standardized Patient Services and Support
What
is a Standardized Patient?
What Standardized Patients
can Do
Advantages of Standardized
Patients
How SPs can benefit your program
Related and supporting services
Development and implementation assistance
Time and cost information
Contact information
What is a Standardized Patient?
A Standardized Patient, or SP is a layperson, or a person with a
stable, chronic illness trained to present a clinical scenario in
the same manner as a “real” patient, for teaching or testing. For
more information please see the Prospective
Standardized Patients or Information
for Students.
What Standardized Patients
Can Do
Examples of Activities That Use Standardized Patients:
Communication
- Complete
- Focused
- Problem based
- Data gathering
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication Challenges such as
- Difficult patient
- Breaking bad news
- Addressing sensitive issues
with patients
Physical Examination
- Complete
- Focused
- Problem based
- Physical signs or findings
- Sensitive or invasive examinations
- Patient-perspective feedback
and coaching
* Teaching associates service not presently available.
Advantages of Standardized
Patients
- The Standardized Patient is not actually “sick”
or worried about their care. Teaching efforts can be concentrated
more on student learning rather than “sick” patient’s condition.
- Standardized Patients provides a “safe” environment
for students to learn and perfect skills they will use with actual
patients.
- The Standardized Patient’s presentation in the
clinical setting is practiced and “standardized” to be predictable
over repeated presentations.
- Multiple Standardized Patients can be trained
for the same role, allowing large numbers of students to have
comparable experiences over a shorter period.
- The Standardized Patient is trained to provide
specific, constructive, feedback from the patient’s perspective.
How
SPs Can Benefit Your Program
Standardized Patient Simulation Services and
Support Are Available For:
Teaching
o
Single student
o
Small group
Testing
o
Long-case, e.g. complete history/physical
o
Multiple skills sampling exercises, e.g. see Year
III OSCE page
Demonstration
o
Clinical skills techniques
o
Clinical presentation of pathology
Clinical presentation of symptoms, signs or findings
Levels of SP Participation and Involvement
Ordered below in increasing depth and complexity of patient participation.
1.
Basic history / physical exam presentation
2.
Complex history / communications scenarios
3.
Simulated physical findings
4.
Customized feedback / interpersonal skills (coaching)
5.
Teaching associates*
(* Teaching associates service not presently available.)
Program Staff Have Experience Providing Service For:
- Medical students – all levels
- Resident physicians
- Practicing physicians
- Nurse practitioners
- Genetics Counseling students
- Pharmacy students
Related And Supporting Services
The Division is able to provide any level of teaching, testing
and logistics support required from
To
- Complete testing “packages”, up to and including large-scale
OSCE type examinations. (Please see Year
III OSCE page for an example) Development
And Implementation Assistance Cases, Applications, And Customized
Services
- Program staff can provide support with most phases of development,
management, and execution.
- All services provided may be customized for each application
and user.
Do you have an idea, but are not sure how to “make it happen?”
– Please give us a call at P. (313) 577-1414!
Time And Cost Information:
Development Time Frame
Exact time span for development from concept to completion will
vary according to your needs. The following estimates may be used
as a guide:
- SP case development – 6 to 8 weeks.
- SP recruitment and preparation – 6 to 12 weeks.
- Planning, preparation and execution of large-scale clinical
examinations usually take 4 – 6 months from start to finish.
Costs
Estimates are individually prepared. Included categories are:
- Patient time for preparation and presentation
- Staff time for development and support
- Material costs for preparation and presentation
We would be happy to provide you with details – Please contact
us! Maurice Kavanagh,
Coordinator-Standardized Patient Program
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