Simulated Participant

Shift: Day
Schedule: Variable, based on your availability and the needs of the Simulation Centers. You will be offered roles (shifts) that fit your availability. You may be offered a regularly recurring role or one-time roles as needed, which you may accept or decline. You are expected to work all shifts you accept.

About the role

Are you looking for a part-time job? Are you looking to help healthcare professionals of the future? Are you an actor or do you want to be an actor? Healthcare simulation center Simulated Participants (SP) perform the role of the patient or family members during health care simulations or clinical skills trainings for learners in the University of Utah’s Healthcare education programs. SPs portray specific emotions, behaviors and disease symptoms while interacting with learners during simulated patient encounters. SPs aid in establishing and maintaining fidelity and realism to each simulation. SPs may participate in video productions, support voice-over for e-learning courses, photographs and other teaching material as required. This is an ongoing job opening and we hire intermittently from this job posting.

Responsibilities

• Arrive on-time and fully prepared for all roles and shifts you accept
• Memorize a case script detailing specific emotions, behaviors, and disease signs/symptoms for presentation during simulated learning situations
• Present case information in a standardized manner, as elicited by students during simulated interactive patient history and/or medical examinations
• Remain in character as a specific patient
• Embody roles with fidelity and realism
• Participate in group training
• Maintain confidentiality of information related to cases, student behaviors and feedback evaluations
• Provide educationally constructive verbal feedback from the patient standpoint when prompted by the facilitator
• Ability to be flexible in different medical and educational settings
• Perform additional job-related duties as assigned

Requirements

• Preferences (but NOT REQUIRED):
  • Experience in medical or healthcare settings
  • Formal training, certification, or experience in areas such as live theatre, dramatic script, acting for film/TV, etc.

Pay

$26.00 per hour