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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
A Standardized Patient (SP) is a healthy individual from the communitywho has been trained to portray in a consistently reproduciblemanner a patient/personin amedical and/or communication based situation. SPs receive extensive training regarding clinical communication skills educational expectations and components of helpful verbal feedback and other logistics of the environment. They studymaterials abouttheobjectives and goals of the program in addition to a detailed story or case to portray that isreflective ofa real patient history or situation. SPs engage withlearnersin carefully designed role play events as though they were a person seeking care in some way.
Because SPs areinvolved in both teaching and testing of a variety of professional learnerstraining allows SPs to approach the work organically and adjust in order to meet the goals of different tasks.
Standardization is most relevant to formal testing of learnersand refers to the management process ofSP training event design andmaterials development. We train SPs to display an appropriate range of behaviors anduse of personal judgement in order to ensuregenuine and unique response to individual student skills.
SPs are able to:
Working as a Standardized/Simulated Patient (SP) provides a unique opportunity to be involved in shaping the education of tomorrows physicianshealth and other professionals.
Although not meant to substitute real patients SPs offer a highly realisticeducational resource give prospective professionals first-hand experience of interacting with people and show the importance of connecting with others through effective communication.
Our SPs are tasked with portraying cases that fit their feedback skills case portrayal abilities and demographicrequirementsfor specific include a variety of situations emotions and physical symptoms. Some cases involvecommunication interviews only and some include focused or full physical exams. Other cases may include emotionally charged situations such as domestic abuse or the death of a child.
The SP Program recruits candidates based on the upcoming needs of courses and goal is to provide learners with the opportunity to practice with SPs who accurately represent real patients; therefore we recruit all gendersall ages from various ethnic groups and with a wide-range of professional experience.
BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES
Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.CAMPUS SECURITY CRIME STATISTICS
Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Pennsylvania Act of 1988 Penn State publishes a combined Annual Security and Annual Fire Safety Report (ASR). The ASR includes crime statistics and institutional policies concerning campus security such as those concerning alcohol and drug use crime prevention the reporting of crimes sexual assault and other matters. The ASR is available for review here.
EEO IS THE LAW
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