Pre-med students who act as standardized patients also say it’s useful for their education, seeing both the patient and ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Through VCU’s Standardized Patient Program, actors find themselves on an uncommon stage and medical students find themselves practicing to perform difficult conversations. It ...

Erin Cronican has sensitive feet—she tells the medical students this every time they try to test her Babinski reflex to make sure her nerves are working correctly. But without fail, they dig the edge ...

When Sarah Davis pretends she’s sick, she’s not avoiding her job—she’s doing it. For the last 16 years, Davis has been part of UMass Medical School’s (UMMS) standardized patient program, through which ...

A group of workers at Thomas Jefferson University who are paid to simulate patients for medical students celebrated a victory earlier this year when they won a union election. But six months later, ...

Norma Jones was admitted to Tech General Hospital Wednesday after suffering a stroke, shortly after calling a neighbor to tell her she needed help. Students from Texas Tech University Health Sciences ...

On a crisp January morning, Angela de Caprariis-Salerno, 77, a retired clinical pharmacist, hopped in her car and zipped off from her Garden City home. She felt great and was eager to face the day.

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — No sooner had a woman in a hospital gown sat down, that she heard a knock on the door. "Hello, are you Joy?" a man in a lab coat asked as he walked into the exam room. "Sounds like ...

The best healthcare, provided at the bedside or virtually, is supported with the best data. Clinically validated data points captured on each patient’s longitudinal care record can contribute to ...

(Green Bay, WI) - The old saying "never say never" takes on a profound reality when applied to hospital events that are never supposed to happen but, in reality, often do. These events are referred to ...