Acting for Medical Simulation

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Ever wonder how medical professionals prepare to care for real-world patients while still in school? They use real people trained to act as standardized patients in encounters that simulate different medical scenarios. In this course, students from any major will learn practical skills in improvisation, analyzing/memorizing a medical case, embodying patient symptoms, and giving effective feedback. They will apply their skills to portray a patient in a simulation with health care students, e.g. in nursing, speech pathology or the physician’s associate program. IC. PA-4B, SI-05.