How are SP's Used?

First year medical students use the Standardized Patients to practice and to be assessed on their head to toe physical examination skills and for practice and evaluation of taking a complete medical history. 

The Standardized Patient Program provides second year students with practice and evaluation of their focused physical examination skills while also practicing and evaluating their focused history and counseling techniques. A unique aspect of the Standardized Patient program is the instructional sessions for second year students so they can experience the performance of the male genital urinary exam and female pelvic and breast examinations.  These examinations are taught in the Standardized Patient Program facility using highly specialized Standardized Patients or teaching associates who use their bodies as an instructional tool guiding the students through the breast and genitourinary examinations.  

In the third year, standardized patients are used in Objective Structured Clinical Evaluations (OSCEs) as an assessment of clinical skills in the Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatric clerkships. Fourth year students are evaluated in the Integrated Curriculum Evaluation Exercise (ICEE) with Standardized Patients to determine if their level of competency is acceptable to graduate.

We also evaluate students in the School of Allied Health Professions.

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