A group of workers at Thomas Jefferson University who are paid to simulate patients for medical students celebrated a victory earlier this year when they won a union election. But six months later, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Through VCU’s Standardized Patient Program, actors find themselves on an uncommon stage and medical students find themselves practicing to perform difficult conversations. It ...

The Office of Standardized Patient Education (OSPE) is part of the Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation (CIPES). The primary goal of OSPE is to enhance clinical skill acquisition and ...

GRAND FORKS — Students at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Science’s Simulation Center often practice on lifelike mannequins, but another program brings real people into ...

Touro University in Nevada is using about 80 actors called “standardized patients” to help medical students learn specific skills before performing medical tasks on real patients.

PHILADELPHIA – Michael Onori thought he recognized the ER doctor who was treating him, even though it had been about a decade since they met. Back then, she was a medical student at the University of ...

The best healthcare, provided at the bedside or virtually, is supported with the best data. Clinically validated data points captured on each patient’s longitudinal care record can contribute to ...

Seeking actors to portray standardized patients for medical simulations. A standardized patient (SP) is trained to look and act like a real patient in order to allow students, in a supervised setting, ...