Credit info for Standardized Patient
Title: Standardized Patient
Role: Principal
Client: Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas
What is a Standardized Patient
A Standardized Patient is someone who has been trained to portray (in a consistent/standardized manner) a patient in a medical situation. Standardized Patients (SPs) are used by many medical facilities to teach and evaluate the Student Learners (student doctors/nurses). SPs learn a case based on a real patient other than themselves and are interviewed and/or examined by students as though they were that person in the doctor’s office or clinic, giving the patient’s history and simulating their physical signs such as pain or difficulty walking.
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