Standardized Patient

About the role

Standardized Patients (SPs) work directly with students enrolled in the Speech-Language Pathology program with Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions and report to the Chair of the Speech-Language Pathology Department. Position is located at the Salus Campus in Elkins Park.

Responsibilities

• SPs are trained to simulate and portray a patient or client in a medical or clinical situation with signs and symptoms of various diagnoses, consistent with the needs of each program.
• Character portrayals can include, but is not limited to, a family member of a patient in a hospital, a client in a counseling center, a patient about to undergo surgery or a medical procedure, or a patient in a doctor’s office setting.
• Typically, an SP will learn a case that is based on a real patient, then be interviewed by students as though they are in an actual medical setting (such as a doctor’s office, urgent care center, emergency department, counseling center