What are the responsibilities and job description for the Standardized Patient position at unm?
A Standardized Patient
(SP) is an individual from the community who is trained to portray a simulated
patient case in a standardized manner. Requirements for this on-call position
include the capacity for standardizing with other SPs who are cast in the same
simulated patient case. These cases are used to teach and test clinical
students’ patient care and communication skills. Therefore, to be standardized,
SPs must have matching physical attributes for the available roles.
The capacity for standardization may be limited
by certain physical characteristics or medical conditions such as surgical
scars, tattoos, prosthetic limbs, muscle weakness, hearing loss, etc. SPs must
be able to step up and down from an examination table, quickly change clothes,
in and out of a gown, and perform physical tasks, which require full range of
motion of limbs, such as raising arms overhead. SPs are required to provide
ethnicity, age, gender and medical history in order to be cast in cases in a
standardized manner.
Under training and close supervision in a
clinical educational setting, consistently and accurately portrays specific
emotions, behaviors, and physical disease symptoms while interacting with
students in the health care field during simulated patient encounters designed
to enable student experiential learning and/or assessment of student skills.
Works varied hours on an on-call in-person basis.
Other skills required to perform successfully as
SP include being detail-oriented, and having an excellent memory and
communication skills. SPs must consent to being filmed for educational
purposes. After hire, photographs will be taken and confidential maintained for
casting purposes.
Applicants should:
1. Have reliable access to e-mail, which is critical for timely response to communication of upcoming case portrayals.
2. Be willing to complete a questionnaire, which includes information about your demographics and medical history to better match you with specific standardized cases.
3. Be willing to have the standardized case portrayal filmed for education purposes.
4. Be willing to wear a hospital gown with or without undergarments, as needed for case portrayal.
5. Be willing to undergo interviews and/or multiple non-invasive physical examinations conducted by clinical students.