Standardized Patient Program - University of Alberta

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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 pam.rock@ualberta.ca 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

For preferred University of Alberta rates, contact: Pam Rock, Director Standardized Patient Program Health Sciences Education and Research Commons University of Alberta 300 Campus Tower 8625 - 112 Street Edmonton, AB T6G 1K8 ph: 780.492.6182 fax: 780.492.2874 pam.rock@ualberta.ca

www.healthscience.ualberta.ca Give yourself a minimum of 3 weeks to bring an SP into your curriculum. This allows time to professionally recruit, train and rehearse scenarios.

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“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

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 Advantages to Students: • 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 Advantages to Educational Programs: • Provides reproducible, reliable experience for all students • Allows for teaching and evaluation of core skills • Creates an active learning environment • Provides qualitative feedback about student performance and applied skills • Allows direct and standardized comparison of students' clinical skills • Reinforces curricular goals