Standardized Patient

Temple University • Philadelphia, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Temple University's Lewis Katz School of Medicine's Simulation Center is looking for a Standardized Patient. The Standardized Patient is someone who has been trained to simulate, in a consistent, realistic, standardized manner, a patient (or family member) in a medical situation. Standardized Patients, or "SPs," are used by Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and by many other medical institutions for teaching and assessment of students.

Requirements

• Ability to simulate a medical patient within designated parameters of a case assignment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable memorization and concentration skills
• Willingness to undergo repeated physical examinations
• Ability to use computer for basic note taking
• Ability to work comfortably with health care professionals and students
• Ability to work a part-time on-call schedule, as needed
• Ability to take direction and standardized responses
• Comfort with wearing a hospital gown and receiving non-invasive physical exams is required.
• No invasive examinations are performed; no medications are given; no sharps are used.

Nice To Haves

• Acting training or experience useful, but not essential.
• Teaching or training experience useful, but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Learn a case, based on a real patient other than themselves, and are interviewed and examined by students as though they were that person in the doctor’s office or clinic, giving that patient’s history, and simulating their physical signs, such as pain or difficulty walking.
• Provide patient centered feedback to students.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed