What are Standardized Patients?
Standardized Patients, also called Simulated Patients, are healthy persons who were trained to act like a patient. These persons can be engaged laymen or professional actors. Standardized Patients are used for educational purposes as well as for assessment.
In education, the main objective is mostly communication training. Besides playing the role of a patient, the Standardized Patients have the task to give feedback to the students from a patient’s perspective.
In assessment, candidates have to demonstrate their competence in taking a medical history or in doing a physical examination.
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Standardized Patients in the Medical School of the University of Bern
In the University of Bern, Standardized Patients are used for assessment since 2002. It is planed to use Standardized Patients for Communicatio Training in Fall 2009.
More on Standardized Patients in Bern
1. Swiss conference „Use of Standardized Patients in the health professions"
On January 21. 2009, the first Swiss conference on the use of Standardized Patients in the health professions took place in the cupola of the main building of the University of Bern. There was great interest in the topic and attendance was larger than expected.
2. Schweizerischer Kongress "Standardisierte Patienten und Simulationen im Gesudheitswesen, 9./10 September 2010, Bern"
Der 2. Kongress wird von der Fachhochschule Gesundheit Bern zusammen mit dem Bildungszentrum Pflege Bern, dem Institut für Medizinische Lehre der Universität Bern und der Haute école cantonale vaudoise de la santé durchgeführt.
Link zur Veranstaltung: 2. Schweizerischer Kongress "Standardisierte Patienten und Simulationen im Gesundheitswesen vom 9./10. September 2010
