Standardized patients are individuals who are specially trained to act as patients for the instruction, practice and assessment of medical examination skills of medical students, fellows, residents ...

Becoming a standardized patient requires a good memory, and excellent listening skills and concentration while being trained, interviewed and examined. Prior acting experience is not required.

Standardized Patients (SP) are "Individuals who are trained to present the symptoms and signs of disease process as they present in real patients" (Barrows, 1985). Standardized patients have been ...

Standardized Patients provide standardized performances – portraying history, physical exam findings, and emotional affect of real patients exactly the same with each learner and thus providing ...

The Standardized Patient Education Program has been serving the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine students since 1996. A Standardized Patient (SP) is an individual trained to act as a real ...

The testing situation consists of a number of stations (examination rooms) where standardized patients present a variety of common, yet important patient problems. The medical students rotate through ...

The Saint Louis University School of Medicine Clinical Skills Center (C.S.C.) is proud to collaborate and recruit members of the local community to serve as standardized patients (S.P.'s) in medical ...