Author's response to reviews Title:Teaching communication skills in clinical settings: comparing two applications of a comprehensive program with standardized and real patients Authors:

Teaching communication skills in clinical settings: comparing two applications of a comprehensive program with standardized and real patients

BACKGROUND Communication is important for the quality of clinical practice, and programs have been implemented to improve healthcare providers' communication skills. However, the consistency of programs teaching communication skills has received little attention, and debate exists about the application of acquired skills to real patients. This study inspects whether (1) results from a communica...

Standardized patients versus simulated patients in medical education: are they the same or different

In order to equip medical students with all the necessary skills in dealing with patients to provide optimal treatment, the need for the use of real patients in educational settings has become prominent. But all the required skills cannot be practiced on real patients due to patients’ safety and well-being. Thus, the use of standardized patients (SPs) or simulated patients (SiPs) as a substitut...

Author's response to reviews Title:An obesity educational intervention for medical students addressing weight bias and communication skills using standardized patients Authors:

Implementation of standardized patient program using local resources in Avalon School of Medicine

Introduction: The standardized Patient Program (SPP) is astandard educational training method which provides the preclinicalstudents a better clinical foundation by linking the realmof clinical medicine to basic sciences. It incorporates a modernsimulation technique and enhances the ability of the studentswherein they can practice, apply and learn the basics of patientencounter. The main object...

The Effect of Employing Standardized Patient on History Taking Skills of Medical Students

Introduction: Using Standardized Patient (SP) in teaching history taking provides medical students with an opportunity to learn how to communicate with patients. A Standardized Patient is a person who has been carefully coached to simulate an actual patient so accurately. This study was performed to assess the effect of using SP on improving history taking skill of third year medical students. ...