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 ...

A different kind of job The simulated patients are a diverse group to portray diverse situations. Open calls have created a roster of people ranging from 17 to mid-70s in age, baristas to medical ...

The Anesthesiology Simulation Lab (ASL) is a suite of three rooms used by the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program – Nurse Anesthesia and the Anesthesiology Residency Program. Configured to replicate an ...

The 45-year-old patient, Sally Artesaros, sat on the exam table, her body hunched in pain with her palm cradling the right side of her temple. "It's sharp and it's pounding," she said of the migraine ...

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 ...

Touring a center where medical students will train on life-like simulation models before entering operating and exam rooms, Dr. Chad Epps almost shudders at the memory of how physicians of his ...

The Clinical Simulation Center at the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing on the University of Wyoming campus houses quite a variety of activity and resources: Skills Lab Simulations: "Low-Fidelity" ...

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They’re stressful. They’re tough. They’re the OSCEs: Exams that train you — the medical student — to be the best doctor you can be. OSCE stands for objective structured clinical examination, and it’s ...