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Standardized Patient Workshops
The Pacific AIDS Education and Training offers hands-on skill development workshops using standardized patients. Standardized patients are actors who are carefully trained to portray real patient cases.
Workshops are available for physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, case managers, counselors, and other health care professionals. Within a small group setting led by a facilitator, participants have an opportunity to practice patient interviewing and counseling skills, such as assessing a patient’s risk for HIV, providing pre- and post-test counseling, and offering adherence-related assessment and counseling.
At the conclusion of the sessions, the standardized patients can provide feedback to the participants, giving the patient’s perspective and telling how the patient felt about various ways of questioning.
Skills taught and practiced with the standardized patients include:
- Introducing the topic of HIV
- Assessing the patient's risk for HIV infection, including taking a sexual history
- Providing information to the patient on risk reduction & "safer" sex
- Recommending HIV testing to the patient
- Providing pre-test counseling to the patient
- Informing the patient of the results of the test & providing post-test counseling
- Providing adherence assessment and counseling
In these workshops standardized patients provide the challenge and excitement of interacting with patients, without harm to a real patient and without the usual restrictions that would normally accompany the use of a real patient.
Workshops are conducted at the USC School of Medicine or at other agency/institution work site.
For more information, please contact:
Sue Lemme
Co-Director, Pacific AETC at USC
323/442-1846
323/442-1843 – FAX
Lemme
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