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The Role of Standardized Patients in Medical Training
TLDR Standardized patients, also known as simulated patients or care actors, are highly trained individuals who play a crucial role in medical training by providing real-life patient interactions and experiences for student doctors. They are given specific criteria and characters to portray in order to simulate authentic medical conditions and aid in diagnosis.
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Standardized patients are being discussed in this podcast episode.
05:07
Standardized patients, also known as simulated patients or care actors, were initially developed by doctors in the 1960s and 1970s as a way to provide medical students with real-life patient interactions and experiences.
10:20
Communication is essential in proper diagnosis, patient safety, and patient satisfaction, and standardized patients play a crucial role in drawing out information from patients to aid in diagnosis.
15:09
Standardized patients are given specific criteria and a character to portray in order to provide a standardized experience for student doctors.
20:31
Standardized patients can be based on real cases and sometimes have hidden agendas, but they are trained to be as realistic as possible in order to provide an authentic experience for student doctors.
25:25
Standardized patients need to be realistic, upbeat, and comfortable with medical professionals, as they have to perform multiple times for different medical students and provide accurate feedback.
30:20
Standardized patients are used in medical training because real patients are not always available, they can provide feedback to medical students, and they can simulate specific medical conditions.
35:25
Standardized patients are highly trained individuals who must be intuitive, good listeners, and flexible in order to effectively simulate medical conditions for medical students, and while they are paid well per hour, it is typically only a part-time gig.
40:50
Care actors are simulated patients who are more useful for doctors who are already in practice and want to improve specific aspects of patient-doctor interaction, and they can ad-lib and switch up scenarios as needed.
45:55
Medical professionals who are not doctors, but rather medical actors, travel the country allowing medical students to practice exams on them, using their own bodies as teaching tools.
51:29
Becoming a standardized patient is a great way to help medical students learn and make some extra money, and you can choose what types of exams you are comfortable with.
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