SP Methodology Reimagined: Human Simulation Online

Clark, Lou; Woll, Anne; Miller, Joseph M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43826-5_18

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Standardized Patients

Clark¹

2022

The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication

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Standardized or simulated patients (SPs) are individuals purposefully coached to collaborate with healthcare educators and trainees on the teaching and practicing of learner clinical skills primarily focused on patient–clinician communication, medical interviewing, and physical exam skills. SPs work with healthcare students by portraying patients during simulated patient–clinician encounters, providing constructive feedback to students, and instructing them on physical exam skills. Standardized patient educators (SPEs) are simulation education professionals who manage SP programs. SPEs recruit, hire, orient, and coach SPs to participate in simulated education events designed to train learners affiliated with organizations such as university health sciences programs and hospitals. A key tenet behind the ubiquitous adoption of SP methodology in the United States since its inception in the 1960s is that SPs provide healthcare learners the opportunity to practice clinical skills without harming clinic or hospital patients or themselves. On March 11, 2020 when the World Health Organization announced the COVID‐19 global pandemic, SPEs were quick to pivot in‐person SP education events held onsite in simulation centers to synchronous online formats. Clinical faculty worked with SPEs to maximize this as an opportunity to support expanded initiatives online for telehealth training and interprofessional education. The future of SP methodology will likely meld innovations in distance learning achieved in the pandemic with onsite SP education in support of clinical skills training for health sciences learners.

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Standardized Patients

Clark¹

2022

The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication

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Telesimulation and Academic Continuity of Health Professions Education

Ochoa

Romero

Barrientos

2021

Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine

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Telesimulation, specifically in health areas, is an educational technique that combines clinical simulation and communication technologies. This definition has been constantly modified, but today more than ever it represents a valuable resource to provide academic continuity. The purpose of this chapter is to present the basic concepts of this strategy while reviewing its antecedents/history in the pre-COVID era, the experience with this technique in health sciences, as well as the processes and resources essential to carry it out with an analysis of the potential limitations that may entail. Likewise, concrete examples of telesimulation in various subjects will be shared, leaving readers the challenge of constant innovation in this field.

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Advancing professionalization in human simulation: perspectives of SP educators from around the world on the Association of SP Educators Standards of Best Practice

Brem

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Blatt

et al. 2023

International Journal of Healthcare Simulation

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Between 2013 and 2017, the Association of SP Educators (ASPE), a global organization of educators dedicated to the work of human simulation, developed Standards of Best Practice (SOBP) for working with human role players in simulation. These individuals are known by diverse terms, including simulated or standardized patients or participants (SPs). This study had two aims: (1) to understand the ways in which the ASPE SOBP are relevant to the practices of SP educators around the world, and (2) to identify improvements to the ASPE SOBP from a global perspective. This qualitative study was undertaken between January 2020 and July 2022. Subjects consented to audio-recorded interviews. A collaborative, inductive coding approach was adopted, followed by thematic analysis, aligned with the methods described by Braun and Clarke. Themes were further updated following reflexive conversations amongst the investigators at meetings over the course of several months and were aligned with the study aims. Twelve SP educators from six continents participated. Four primary themes were identified (each with multiple subthemes): influencing SP educator practices; advancing professionalization; identifying challenges to implementation; and bridging gaps in the ASPE SOBP. A diverse group of SP educators from around the world identified the ASPE SOBP in general as relevant and applicable to their practice. The standards provided both guidance and flexibility for working with SPs in a safe, effective and quality-based way. At the same time there were challenges noted and recommendations made that can help to inform future iterations of the standards.

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SP Methodology Reimagined: Human Simulation Online

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Standardized Patients

Telesimulation and Academic Continuity of Health Professions Education

Advancing professionalization in human simulation: perspectives of SP educators from around the world on the Association of SP Educators Standards of Best Practice

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