Standardized Patient Program
The Standardized Patient (SP) Program recruits, trains, and schedules individuals to simulate patients for teaching and evaluating health sciences students’ clinical skills.
By providing individuals trained to role play specific medical cases or to present with their own medical history, the Standardized Patient Program creates safe and realistic learning and evaluation situations based on real-life clinical experiences. |
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 The repeatability generated using standardized patients in clinical interactions also promotes reliable and valid assessments of students.
The Standardized Patient Program was established in 1999 by the Medical School. In five years, it grew from providing patients for a single course for second year medical students to involvement with over 15 different programs.
In the summer of 2003, the SP program moved to the Interprofessional Education and Resource Center (IERC) in the Academic Health Center.
Each school year, the IERC's Standardized Patient Program schedules over a thousand standardized patients for courses and exams in Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine.
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