ERI: Standardized Patients Resources
Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE)
The mission of the Association of Standardized Patient Educators and its members is
to promote and support the development and advancement of Standardized Patient (SP)
education and research in the Health Sciences, including:
*The use and development of Standardized Patient methodology,
* Research about Standardized Patient methodology and use,
* Collaboration among Standardized Patient Educators,
* Continuing education for Standardized Patient Educators,
* Establishment of standards of practice for SP use,
* Safe ethical practices involving use of SP's,
* Representation of the SP's perspective and needs,
* The exchange of resources and information related to SP methodology and educators.
URL: http://www.aspeducators.org
Cancer Teaching and Curriculum Enhancement Resources
The Goal of the CATCHUM Project is to promote and advance cancer prevention and control
education for undergraduate medical students. This Consortium of 8 Texas Medical Schools
is dedicated to developing, implementing and evaluating state-of-the-science education to ensure
that every medical student has an opportunity to become and effective agent for cancer prevention
and control. The site includes OSCE cases, PBL guidelines and other educational resources.
URL: http://www.catchum.utmb.edu/resources/resources-osc.htm
Dalhousie University Simulated Patient Program
This web site provides information on the development of the simulated patient program
at Dalhousie. New data is added periodically. Forthcoming revisions will include
information on new developments in 'objective structured clinical examinations' as
updated links to other sites. The site includes links to other sites and a press kit.
URL:http://www.medicine.dal.ca/spp/index.htm
ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment
The site provides information related to the assessment of clinical skills for international
medical graduates seeking residencies in US medical schools. Included is information
about scheduling, application forms, fees, eligibility and the testing center.
URL:http://www.ecfmg.org/
McMaster University Standardized Patient Programme
This site is designed for the recruitment and evaluation of SPs to be trained as cases for
the medical school curriculum. The site includes rating forms and a bibliography.
URL:http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/spp/index.html
Playing Doctor: Philadelphia CityPaper.Net
This story provides insight into the ECFMG standardized patient program, with a focus on
the people hired to fill the role of patients to assess clinical skills.
URL:http://www.cpcn.com/articles/062598/cover.shtml
Standardized Patient Scenarios for Teaching and Evaluating Bioethics: this page includes
cases and checklists for the evaluation of ethical decision-making in medical education.
Much of the information is not copyrighted and can be used for educational purposes.
URL:http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/osce.html
Standardized Patient Trainers Mailing List
SP-Trainer is a listproc mailing list for trainers and other people involved in the use of Standardized
Patients. Discussion includes topics such as: training for physical simulations, training techniques
and issues, case development and sharing, and program development. To subscribe to the
SP-Trainer mailing list, send email to listproc@u.washington.edu with no subject line and the
following line in the body:
subscribe sp-trainer Full Name
Where Full Name is your full name as you would like it to appear to the list. In a few minutes you
will receive a mail stating that your subscription is being approved by the list owner. Within a day
you should receive an approval and a welcome file.
URL: http://depts.washington.edu/hsas/Clinical/splinks.html
The NBME Standardized Patient Project
This site describes the plans for the development of a SP-based examination for medical
licensure. URL:http://www.nbme.org/research/spupdate.asp
The use of standardized patients in the assessment of medical practice
A full text version of an article by Robyn Tamblyn in the Canadian Medical Association
Journal. Includes references and links to related articles.
URL:http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-158/issue-2/0205.htm
University of Cape Town OSCE in Obstetrics & Gynecology
The site describes the use of OSCE in OB-GYN. More importantly, it describes a variety of
considerations and obstacles to implementing an OSCE from a faculty perspective.
URL:http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/doogie/osce1.htm
University of Florida Standardized Patient Program
The site describes the use of SP within the basic clinical skills course. Included is the
course syllabus, as well as sample cases and checklists.
URL:http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/sgeabcs/sgeabcs.html
University of Southern California Standardized Patient Page
The pages describe the implementation of SP within the medical school curriculum. Also
described is the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence, of
which USC is a member. URL:http://www.usc.edu/hsc/medicine/med-ed/stdpat.html
University of Washington Standardized Patient Program
This site offers information for both SP trainers as well as people in the community
interested in becoming an SP. In addition, there are links to articles about standardized
patients. URL:http://depts.washington.edu/~hsas/Clinical/SP.html