Patient Actor

Job description

Schedule This is a PRN position with availability of twice per month during the following hours: Monday: 8:00am-11:30am Tuesday: 1:30pm- 3:00pm General Summary: Portrays a patient or a patient family member in role-playing educational encounters with health-care professionals for the purpose of teaching communication skills on an "as needed" basis. During learning sessions the Standardized Patient (SP) may be interviewed, counseled and/or physically examined noninvasively (e.g., temperature, blood pressure, heart/breath sounds) by the learner. SP training sessions with the SP Educator will be videotaped. Learning sessions may also be audio or videotaped. At the conclusion of each encounter, the SP completes a learner feedback checklist and then provides face-to-face feedback to the learner. Duties and Responsibilities: Essential Functions: - Accurately and consistently portray a specific type of patient, knowing the chief complaint and symptoms, past medical history, physical exam results as well as the appropriate personal appearance, demeanor, communication style, body language and emotional and personality characteristics. - Receives ongoing feedback from the SP Educator and mod...