Nov. 8—Amy Pyatt, of Joplin, never pictured herself becoming an actress, but her part-time job posing as a sick patient at Kansas City University-Joplin has helped dozens of medical students gain ...

Medical schools are facing a shortage of "simulated patients" who fake entire medical histories and symptoms to help assess the diagnostic skills of medical students. Monash School of Rural Health is ...

The UK has some of the best patient data available anywhere in the world, and a preeminent position in the collection of cancer data at both an individual tumour and patient level. A newly-launched ...

Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry are recruiting for the casual role of unscripted simulated patients that we use for events such as OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical ...

Victoria’s contractions speed up under the student’s hand as he helps deliver her baby. The newborn with a steady heartbeat gives a cry, just before Victoria begins to haemorrhage, soaking the sheets ...

Kaitley Wozer arrived at the University at Buffalo’s nursing simulation lab ready to give birth. She wore black tights under a hospital gown, strapped an injection pad to her left thigh “so they can ...

COLUMBUS - The scenarios can be simple or extremely complex but either way, work with the new patient simulators coming to Columbus Community Hospital will be as real as it can get. The simulators are ...

Implementing a quality improvement curriculum for medical oncology residents: A pilot study at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre. Background: Medical educators have adopted simulation-based exercises ...

Objectives This study assessed whether a previously developed Monte Carlo simulation model can be reused for evaluating various strategies to minimise time-to-treatment in southwest Netherlands for ...

The UK has some of the best patient data available anywhere in the world, and a preeminent position in the collection of cancer data at both an individual tumour and patient level. A newly-launched ...

Do you know anyone seeking casual work? Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry are looking to add to the pool of unscripted simulated patients that we use for events such as OSCEs ...