Department of Medical Education
STANDARDIZED PATIENT
UNIT
PENGENALAN
The UKM Faculty of Medicine launched the Standard Patient Program in early 2007 for the purpose of learning and examination of medical students. These standard patients are involved in clinical teaching and self-development and professionalism. With the help of standard patients students are trained to take patient histories, conduct physical examinations, and communicate with standard patients. The main goal of the program is to train students to become more sensitive doctors or paramedics and respect the patient’s wishes, ability, ethics, and professionalism. Standardized patient or SP (Standardized patient) is an individual trained to carry the character as a real patient. He will bring a specific and consistent character in each of his acting scenarios. This standard patient is important in the context of the learning and examination of medical and health science students. The use of this SP has been widespread in many medical faculties around the world. It provides an opportunity for medical and health science students to interact with real patients just as their future duties as a medical and health practitioner.
POLICIES & PROCEDURES
The Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine UKM aims to equip medical and health science students with competent clinical skills, communication skills and also a professional nature.
Sessions organized by the Standard Patient Program provide a learning experience using standard patients. The commitment and dedication as a standard patient is greatly appreciated and will be ensured to provide the best possible service in a healthy work environment in this unit.
OBJECTIVE
- Enables Scenario-Based Learning (SBL) learning activities to be implemented according to the set date.
- Through the available equipment, it allows the sharing of knowledge between lecturers, students and standard patients through learning sessions that will be implemented.
- Provide opportunities for medical and health science students to deal with clinical scenarios.
- Opportunity for medical and health science students to learn without endangering the lives of patients.
- Assist lecturers to apply the latest teaching methods.
WHO IS A STANDARDIZED PATIENT
A Standardized Patient or nicknamed SP, is an individual who has been trained to carry the character as a real patient. He will bring a specific and consistent character in each of his acting scenarios. This Standard Patient is important in the context of the learning and examination of medical and health science students.
By participating in this Standard Patient program, you have the opportunity to jointly help contribute energy in teaching and be able to influence the quality of education in the field of medicine and health sciences in this country. This career will probably require you to play a character over and over again for several groups of students.
The use of this SP has been widespread in many medical faculties around the world. It provides an opportunity for students to learn interpersonal skills to interact with real patients as their next assignment.
ROLES
- Perform all types of basic and routine clinical examinations.
- Performing a physical examination performed does not cause harm to you.
- Your dignity as a Standard Patient will always be taken care of at all times as usual when receiving treatment.
SELECTION TERMS
- You must sign a letter of agreement to keep the secret.
- You need to present yourself with an offer letter and an arrival card for the session.
- You must be on time and arrive 30 minutes before the session begins.
- Clothing must be neat, polite, comfortable, and appropriate.
- Need to sign a declaration form that you have no contact with the students involved in the session to be held.
- Standard Patients who are inactive for a period of one (1) year and decline the acting offer three (3) times in a row will be removed from the Standard
- Patient list. If they want to be a Standard Patient again, they will have to fill out the membership form again.
- Standard Patients with disciplinary problems will be removed from the list of Standard Patients.
PAYMENT
This is a part -time job and working hours are flexible. You will be paid a minimum of RM30.00 (per hour) and the minimum acting/rehearsal time is for 4 hours a day.
You are required to arrange a release from your employer as we will not provide a release letter for the participants involved.
