Standardized Patients' Perceptions About Their Own Health Care

This paper describes the use of simulated patients in medical education and how actors have been deployed with medical students in Aberdeen. The advantages and disadvantages of using actors for student education are summarised and we conclude with some possible future developments. At the outset, it may be helpful to outline some definitions, as in the review by Barrows (1993). A ‘standardised patient’ is an umbrella term for both an actual patient who is trained to present his or her own illness in a standardised way and also for a simulated patient who is a well person trained to portray an illness in a standardised way. This paper will use these terms but will relate mainly to the use of professional actors (not volunteers from the general public, who are often deployed by medical teachers) as simulated psychiatric patients.

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“…A positive aspect of the simulated patient role is that the simulators become more knowledgeable about their own health (Wallach et al, 2001).…”

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Simulated patients in undergraduate education in psychiatry

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“…SPs, experienced in medical communication either with OSCEs or teaching for medical students were invited to reflect on the relationship with their usual HCP. The authors concluded that SPs felt more comfortable and communicated more effectively with their own HCP [7]. SPs reported a better understanding of medical history taking and physical examination [7] and perceived their ability to judge the quality of a health care interaction as improved [7,8].…”

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“…Literature of studies on side effects reveals two main areas: influences of simulating on personal health and influences on the perception of and contact with their own health care provider (HCP) [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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“…Three studies, by Wallach [7], Rubin [8] (both quantitative) and Woodward (qualitative) [9], described the influence of simulation on the contact with the own HCP and the perception of this HCP. SPs, experienced in medical communication either with OSCEs or teaching for medical students were invited to reflect on the relationship with their usual HCP.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…SPs reported a better understanding of medical history taking and physical examination [7] and perceived their ability to judge the quality of a health care interaction as improved [7,8]. The perception of the SP towards the HCP had changed: SPs developed a more balanced perspective regarding HCPs, renegotiated the relationship or even changed their personal physicians [7,9].…”

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confidence: 99%

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