Standardized Patients

A standardized (or simulated) patient (SP) is a person who is carefully coached to simulate in a reliable and standardized manner the history, physical findings, as well as the personality and emotional characteristics of a real patient.

The University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine has implemented since 1995, in its undergraduate medical curriculum, a standardized patient program. Since its introduction, the SP have been used as a teaching and evaluation tool in the Clinical skills program and in clinical clerkships, namely Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. Its uses have now been extended to the residency training programs and to clinical research.

To learn more about the Standardized Patient Program of the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, visit its web site.

Contacts:

Dr. Florence Demaurex, Program Director
Mme Jacqueline Laurin, Coordinator

Development

Standardized Patients