Integrating Actors Into a Simulation Program

Abstract

We describe our more than 10 years' experience working with actors and provide a "how-to" guide to recruiting, auditioning, hiring, training, and mentoring actors for work as simulated patients in simulation programs. We contend that trained actors add great realism, richness, and depth to simulation-based training programs. The actors experience satisfaction from their contributions, and their skill and improvisational talent allow programs to offer ethical and relational training, customized to a wide range of practitioners and adapted across a variety of health care conversations. Such learning opportunities can directly address Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies in preparing capable, confident, and empathic health care practitioners.

Types, Purposes And Simulation Of Contributions In Vocational Training In Health: Narrative Review

“…The actors can make adjustments that modulate the emotional intensity of the scene, becoming upset by teasing or poor choices of words by participants, outbursts of anger, pacing and crying, just as they can use relief expressions, including laughter is no creation and bond and presence of empathy [21].…”

“…Another point is the real experience lived by the actors as in certain diseases, not knowing distance themselves sufficiently for the interpretation and use adjusting the simulation. In this context, it takes time to test that must be provided for understanding of all relevant information to the scenario and the case [21].…”

“…The use of actors is another key to a successful simulation of realistic type, as Stopped and the thought of disbelief of the student by the intense interpretation of the role by actor and it is feasible to rethink teaching [7,21]. The actors can make adjustments that modulate the emotional intensity of the scene, becoming upset by teasing or poor choices of words by participants, outbursts of anger, pacing and crying, just as they can use relief expressions, including laughter is no creation and bond and presence of empathy [21].…”

“…Fidelity is optimized in this simulation mode thanks to the scenarios that are derived from actual clinical situations and qualified actors in the context of social and emotional interpretation of patients and families in difficult circumstances. [21] Another method of simulation consists at the using of two or more types of simulators simultaneously is called Hybrid simulation used to perform procedures without losing actual fact favored by patients [7] exemplified by the use of low fidelity dummies with standard patient [11,21] and use of computerized mannequins and virtual reality featuring Augmented Reality [20].…”

Pacientes simulados en la formación de los profesionales de salud: el lado humano de la simulación

“…Se puede reclutar con un aviso en el diario, en el cual se hace un llamado a personas que reúnan un determinado número de características como sexo, edad, contextura, nivel educacional, entre otras. En EMUC (y otras escuelas de medicina) 65 reclutamos principalmente (aunque no exclusivamente) a actores profesionales. Es nuestra experiencia que el actor profesional tiene competencias que le permiten asumir el rol de PS con mayor facilidad que personas que no tiene formación en teatro (Tabla 6).…”