Benefits of Standardized Patient Simulations
- Learn and practice important clinical and communication skills with individuals who are trained to respond to the wide variety of approaches to patient care, emotional challenges, and in settings that offer challenges to trainees.
- Provide accurate and reproducible record of trainee actions, providing a fair and reliable method of evaluating performance.
- Trainees receive direct feedback regarding their interaction with the standardized patient from their unique perspective as a patient.
- Used in a wide variety of health care communications training settings (e.g., standardized parents, students, doctors, nurses, etc. as part of multidisciplinary teams, etc.)
- Unique training or outcomes measure in instructional intervention research.
