Standardized Patient Program
Standardized Patients (SP) are members of our community trained to portray patients in complex scenarios to provide experiences in communication, diagnosis, and physical examination skills. SPs perform as models for ultrasound, portray cases for practice purposes and/or high stakes exams, and are trained to provide good feedback to learners. Some of our SPs are specially trained to teach the Physical Exam to small groups of learners as well.
Standardized Physical Exam Teaching Associates (SPETA), including Gynecological Teaching Associates (GTA) and Male Urological Teaching Associates (MUTA), teach learners how to conduct the full physical exam in a standardized format one system at a time in a safe, comfortable, thorough, and respectful patient‐centered manner.
Our SP's SPETA, MUTA and GTA's make a difference in health care education with each encounter.
What is a Standardized Patient?
A Standardized Patient (SP) is a person paid to role-play a real clinical situation to help health professional students learn and/or evaluate clinical skills.
A Standardized Patient must be able to:
- Memorize and portray a patient case scenario
- Observe a learner’s behavior
- Recall the encounter and complete a checklist
- Provide feedback to the learner
Our SP's are a supportive group who enjoy what they do because they know it’s important to both medical professionals and patients. SP's feel proud of their contribution to medical education.
We participate fully with the Association for Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE):
and with the International GTA/MUTA Association for (IGMA):