| Theresa A. Thomas Professional Skills Teaching and Assessment Center |
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Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Theresa A. Thomas Professional Skills Professional Skills Teaching and Assessment Center is dedicated to establishing competencies in clinical, communication and professional skills of health care providers. The Center’s mission is to promote and provide high quality clinical education amd experiences and reliable assessment of skills and procedures, with the ultimate goals of advancing patient care, increasing patient satisfaction and promoting better health outcomes. The use of SPs allows the realistic simulation of patient contact to foster the learner's development of skills necessary for mastering data gathering, physical examination, basic and advanced communication, diagnosis and management, professionalism and responsiveness to patient concerns, while learning and being asssessed in a safe environment. Additionally, the center provides experiential sessions for the community and corporate world to enhance competencies in communication and interpersonal skills such as job interview training for at-risk youth, interview training for medical school applicants and customer/client satisfaction training. The Center allows clients to expand existing programs, launch new instructional techniques, and employ new outcomes assessments with the goal of training competent, compassionate professionals. “The term standardized patient (SP) has gone through many metamorphoses, as the process itself has been refined since its inception in 1963. There have been many other names attempting to describe this phenomenon: programmed patient, patient instructor, patient educator, professional patient, surrogate patient, teaching associate, and—the more generic term—simulated patient. What all of these terms are referring to is a person who has been carefully trained to take on the characteristics of a real patient in order to provide an opportunity for a learner to learn or be evaluated on skills firsthand.”
Peggy Wallace, Ph.D. For more information, contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 721 Fairfax Avenue Park in the Central Parking Lot & Deck Phone: Fax: |
