Standardized Patient

Hourly Rate: $25.00 per hour

About the role

Reporting to the Program Director, the Standardized Patient is someone who has been trained to simulate, in a consistent, realistic, standardized manner, a patient (or family member) in a medical situation. Standardized Patients, or "SPs," are used by Temple's Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and by many other medical institutions for teaching and assessment of students.

Responsibilities

• Learn a case, based on a real patient other than themselves, and are interviewed and examined by students as though they were that person in the doctor's office or clinic, giving that patient's history, and simulating their physical signs, such as pain or difficulty walking.
• No invasive examinations are performed; no medications are given; no sharps are used.
• Comfort with wearing a hospital gown and receiving non-invasive physical exams is required.
• Some activities require SPs to provide patient-centered feedback to students.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

• Ability to simulate a medical patient within designated parameters of a case assignment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable memorization and concentration skills
• Willingness to undergo repeated physical examinations
• Ability to use a computer for basic note-taking
• Ability to work comfortably with health care professionals and students
• Ability to work a part-time on-call schedule, as needed
• Ability to take direction and standardized responses

Preferred Qualifications

• Acting training or experience useful, but not essential
• Teaching or training experience useful, but not essential

Schedule

This is a part-time, on-call position.