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Yong Loo Lin
School of Medicine

Standardised patients help with medical training

Published: 24 Jan 2017

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Part-time actors are now being engaged by medical schools to role-play as patients during medical training. These standardised patients (SPs) simulate patients and help mimic the symptoms and illnesses that medical students will eventually confront in their patients. NUS Medicine engages about 160 SPs who help students to polish their bedside manners long before they reach a real patient’s bedside.

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