Simulation can be used to teach medical students and physicians in a safe environment without risk to an actual patient, Dr. Holmstrom said. The ability to realistically recreate high-risk, as well as ...

Karri Livingston remembers the “Seinfeld” episode with Kramer as a simulated patient. It still makes her laugh. She began as a simulated patient at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in ...

Touring a center where medical students will train on life-like simulation models before entering operating and exam rooms, Dr. Chad Epps almost shudders at the memory of how physicians of his ...

The Clinical Simulation Center at the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing on the University of Wyoming campus houses quite a variety of activity and resources: Skills Lab Simulations: "Low-Fidelity" ...

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The Office of Standardized Patient Education (OSPE) is part of the Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation (CIPES). The primary goal of OSPE is to enhance clinical skill acquisition and ...

They’re stressful. They’re tough. They’re the OSCEs: Exams that train you — the medical student — to be the best doctor you can be. OSCE stands for objective structured clinical examination, and it’s ...

Standardized Patients (SP) are "Individuals who are trained to present the symptoms and signs of disease process as they present in real patients" (Barrows, 1985). Standardized patients have been ...

The largest urban health simulation and training facility of its kind opened Tuesday at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital Center. The New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences was created by The City ...

Tampa, FL (Sept. 2, 2011) -- Medical students who practiced on a patient simulator before assisting in real-life vaginal deliveries scored significantly higher on their final examinations than did ...