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 ...

Becoming a standardized patient requires a good memory, and excellent listening skills and concentration while being trained, interviewed and examined. Prior acting experience is not required.

Using highly-trained standardized patients, students practice history and physical examinations, communication skill and relationship building. Depending on the discipline, our spaces can flex to be ...

The Clinical Skills Center is where medical students taking Introduction to Clinical Medicine practice skills such as taking patient medical histories and performing physical examinations. It is also ...

GRAND FORKS — Students at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Science’s Simulation Center often practice on lifelike mannequins, but another program brings real people into ...

PBL can be helpful in improving clinical competence in students. This approach uses foundational principles of PBL from the beginning of the semester-long health assessment course. (The course meets ...

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 ...

Nearly half of hospital executives said patient experience is their top priority for the next two years, according to a recent survey. However, scores have steadily declined since 2019. In 2020, 14% ...