Standardized Patient

Texas Tech University • Lubbock, TX

3d

About The Position

Incumbents are trained to portray specific health problems and symptoms to help students learn techniques and procedures for taking medical histories, performing medical examinations, determining diagnoses, and educating and informing patients about diagnoses. The role involves memorizing a character’s illness, past medical history, and physical examination results, then simulating appropriate body language, emotional state, and personality traits. Standardized Patients portray varied clinical scenarios, including a patient’s appearance, demeanor, communication style, and symptoms. They instruct and practice interviewing and some superficial physical assessment skills with medical students, provide feedback after interviews, and evaluate students’ skills. Feedback may be delivered in person, verbally, in writing, or electronically. The position also requires using institutional systems, managing passwords, communicating through Outlook email, accessing Word and PDF documents and learning platforms, and using a smartphone for two-factor authentication. No acting or direct experience is required.

Requirements

• Ability to understand and follow instructions.
• Ability to memorize and improvise.
• Ability to use institutional systems, manage passwords, communicate through Outlook email, access Word and PDF documents and learning platforms, and use a smartphone for two-factor authentication.

Responsibilities

• Memorize the assigned character’s illness, past medical history, and physical examination results.
• Simulate appropriate body language, emotional state, and personality traits for the character.
• Portray a variety of clinical scenarios, including the patient’s appearance, demeanor, communication style, and symptomatology.
• Instruct and practice interviewing and some superficial physical assessment skills with medical students.
• Provide feedback after students interview the Standardized Patient.
• Evaluate and assess students’ skills.
• Deliver feedback in person, verbally, in writing, or electronically.
• Use institutional systems and manage passwords.
• Communicate through Outlook email and access Word and PDF documents, learning platforms, and smartphone-based two-factor authentication.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed