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Simulated patients in undergraduate education in psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John M. Eagles ,
Sheila A. Calder ,
Sam Wilson ,
Jane M. Murdoch  and
Paul D. Sclare
John M. Eagles
Affiliation:
Royal Cornhill Hospital, Cornhill Road, Aberdeen AB25 2ZH, email: john.eagles@gpct.grampian.scot.nhs.uk
Sheila A. Calder
Affiliation:
Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen
Sam Wilson
Affiliation:
Medical Education Unit, University of Aberdeen
Jane M. Murdoch
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
Paul D. Sclare
Affiliation:
Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen
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This paper describes the use of simulated patients in medical education and how actors have been deployed with medical students in Aberdeen. The advantages and disadvantages of using actors for student education are summarised and we conclude with some possible future developments. At the outset, it may be helpful to outline some definitions, as in the review by Barrows (1993). A ‘standardised patient’ is an umbrella term for both an actual patient who is trained to present his or her own illness in a standardised way and also for a simulated patient who is a well person trained to portray an illness in a standardised way. This paper will use these terms but will relate mainly to the use of professional actors (not volunteers from the general public, who are often deployed by medical teachers) as simulated psychiatric patients.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , May 2007 , pp. 187 - 190
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2007

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