Simulation has been used as a teaching pedagogy in health science disciplines for more
than a century. Integrating standardized patients into simulation provides a high level of …

T he clinical competence of health care providers is achieved in the educational
environment through the standardization of training and assessment, and standardized …

The standardized patient is the oldest form of simulation in medical education and has
developed from a novel informal tool to a sophisticated method for teaching and learning …

Aim. This paper serves as the outline for a simulation that nurse educators can use to better
prepare graduate students for the clinical setting and ensure the student's essential …

The use of simulated patients to evaluate clinical competence is commonplace in many
health professional programs. Barrows (1971, 1987, 1993) and Barrows & Abrahamson …

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a strategy used to evaluate a
student's clinical skill performance under a variety of simulated conditions. Historically …

Simulations for teaching and assessment in the health sciences have become more widely
used as a result of advances in technology; increased emphasis on effectively teaching …

Standardized or simulated patients (SPs) have become an essential aspect of medical
education. They date back to the 1960s when Dr. Howard Barrows of the University of …

Occupational therapy educators are challenged to prepare students entering the profession
to be skilled in assessment, critical thinking, self-analysis, and decision-making. Simulation …

High Fidelity Patient Simulation in Nursing Education is a comprehensive guide to
developing and implementing a high-fidelity patient simulation in a clinical setting. It is a …