The Penn State College of Medicine - University Park location is recruiting for Standardized Patients to work with medical students in the Student Learning Center located in State College, PA. This position will require on-site presence.
What is a Standardized Patient?
An SP is a healthy individual from the community who has been trained to portray, in a consistently reproducible manner, a patient/person in a medical and/or communication based situation. SPs receive extensive training regarding clinical communication skills, educational expectations, and components of helpful verbal feedback and other logistics of the environment. They study materials about the objectives and goals of the program in addition to a detailed story or case to portray, that is reflective of a real patient history or situation. SPs engage with learners in carefully designed role play events as though they were a person seeking care in some way.
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