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Broader Applications of Communication: Using the Human Body for Teaching and Assessment

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Implementing Best Practices in Standardized Patient Methodology

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Standardized Patients can be trained and utilized as educators in realms that reach beyond the commonly used communication. These expanded applications are rooted in the communication training that an SP receives in your program. Consider the utilization of SPs to instruct and assess learners in their communication and physical exam skills. Depending on the cases you already employ this may not be far from your current implementation. The true expansion into additional applications begins with your inclusion of instruction or assessment sessions explicitly aimed to evaluate the physical examination skills. During this chapter you will find information about the recruitment, hiring, and training of Physical Exam Teaching Associates (PETA), Gynecological Teaching Associates (GTA), and Male Urogenital Teaching Associates (MUTA), as well as the design and implementation of these programs within a simulation center. Each of these rolls includes additional extensive training to instruct, facilitate learning, and assess the participants in the sessions. Every program will utilize these roles differently and therefore you will find separate considerations for the design and implementation of sessions based on their intended design. These may include sessions used to instruct learners on new physical exam techniques and sessions used for either formative or summative assessments.

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Abbreviations

ASPE:

Association of Standardized Patient Educators

COMLEX-USA:

Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination.

GTA:

Gynecological Teaching Associate

GUTA:

Genitourinary Teaching Associate

INACSL:

International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning

MUTA:

Male Urological Teaching Associate

OB/GYN:

Obstetrics and Gynecology

OSCE:

Objective Structured Clinical Examination

PETA:

Physical Examination Teaching Associate

SMART:

Specific. Measurable. Achievable. Relevant. Time-bound

SME:

subject matter expert

SOBP:

Standards of Best Practice

SP:

Standardized/Simulated Patient

SPE:

Standardized Patient Educator

SSH:

Society for Simulation in Healthcare

TA:

Teaching Associate

USMLE:

United States Medical Licensing Examination

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  1. Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Chelsea Weaks & Lorraine Lyman

  2. Eastern Michigan University, School of Nursing, Ypsilanti, MI, USA

    Holly Hopkins

  3. Clinical Skills USA, Inc. and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, Ellijay, GA, USA

    Scott W. George

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  2. Simulation Education and Operations at the Clinical Simulation Laboratory at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

    Catherine F. Nicholas

  3. Executive Director, M Simulation, Office of Academic Clinical Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Weaks, C., Hopkins, H., Lyman, L., George, S.W. (2020). Broader Applications of Communication: Using the Human Body for Teaching and Assessment. In: Gliva-McConvey, G., Nicholas, C.F., Clark, L. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Implementing Best Practices in Standardized Patient Methodology. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43826-5_12

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