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While standardized patients (SPs) have enjoyed a long-standing history in education and assessment of many healthcare providers, in anesthesiology, their use remains somewhat limited. It may be prudent to consider increasing the focused use of SPs (and standardized providers) for educating and assessing anesthesiology providers on difficult conversations such as apology and disclosure, informed consent, and conflict in the perioperative setting, given their increasing use for assessment by the anesthesiology boards such as the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Israeli Board of Anesthesiology, and the American Board of Anesthesiology. This chapter aims to review the history of standardized patients in healthcare education, to present evidence of their usefulness in education and assessment, and to provide examples of standardized patient use in anesthesiology education and assessment.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Roxane Gardner

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Roxane Gardner

  3. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Roxane Gardner

  4. Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, MA, USA

    Roxane Gardner

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    Bryan Mahoney

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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  3. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    May C. M. Pian-Smith

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Gardner, R. (2020). Standardized Patients. In: Mahoney, B., Minehart, R., Pian-Smith, M. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Anesthesiology . Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26849-7_10

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