Standardized Patient (Health Education Center)
JOB SUMMARY:
A standardized patient is a lay person (non-healthcare professional) who is trained to portray medical illnesses and scenarios in a standard, repeatble fashion for use in training healthcare professionals.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Completion of 8th grade (must be at least 16 years of age). No experience required.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Learn scenario and reproduce it in standardized manner for multiple students.
- Serve as "practice patient" for non-invasive clinical skills exams and procedures.
- Reliably portrays medical illnesses and scenarios as represented in SP scripts.
- Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
- Good verbal communication skills
- Able to stay in role during learner encounter
- Able to meet mastery standards for assigned patient scenarios
- Able to give verbal feedback (with training)
- Ale to give written feedback (with training)
- Basic computer skills
- Respectful, reliable, professional
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT:
UTMB strives to provide equal opportunity employment withour regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or veteran status. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
