[...]... Learning to Use the Checklist Principles for Checklist Coaching The Goal of Training Session Two The Training Setting Summary of the Training Activities Reminders Session Two Training Activities (Estimated Time: 3 Hours) Preparation of the SPs for Training Session Three The Coach’s Preparation for Training Session Three The Coach’s Preparation for Training Session Four, the Practice Exam, and the CPX... (Clinician Verification of SPs’ Authenticity) The Goal of Training Session Four The Training Setting Summary of the Training Activities Reminders Session Four Training Activities (Estimated Time: 3 hours) Preparation of the SPs for the Practice Exam The Coach’s Preparation for the Practice Exam Training Options: Variations on the Training Sessions Determining the SP Training Necessary Reorganizing the. .. methodology, there is an art to working with standardized patients just as there is an art to working with real patients in the field of medicine In our work with standardized patients, the methodology for training unites with the art of coaching which relies on awareness, intuition, and the dramatic arts It was my intent in writing this book that both the art of coaching and the practical aspects of training standardized. .. to the highest standards, and then monitored and given feedback on their portrayals and their checklists throughout their training and during all of the administrations of the clinical skills examination Otherwise, no one can be certain how accurate the numbers are in the data that were collected Therefore, the most exacting kinds of recruitment and training of standardized patients are required for. .. 188 Training Session Three: Putting It All Together (Performance, Checklist, Feedback) The Three Areas of Training Emphasis: Performance, Checklist, Feedback The Goal of Training Session Three The Training Setting Summary of the Training Activities Reminders Session Three Training Activities (Estimated Time: 3.5 Hours) Preparation of the SPs for Training Session Four The Coach’s Preparation for Session... Fitzpatrick, Nancy Heine, Ellen Lewis, and Elizabeth O’Gara—who participated in the initial refinement of the training procedures we are using in the CCACC I am grateful to them and to all the SP educators in the CCACC for their dedication to the quality of our coaching and for their ongoing creative ideas that are contributing to the advancement of SP coaching methodology Michael Prislin, friend and colleague,... play the patient case—a critical task, because if poor choices are made in the selection of the SPs, the coach is in for trouble from the start Chapter 6 contains an overview of what is involved in training the recruits to get ready to perform as standardized patients in CPX-type examinations Chapters 7 through 10 contain a specific set of detailed procedures for coaches to use in sequence when training... connection in this book between the art of SP coaching, the dramatic arts, and the authenticity of our SPs’ performances in the service of training future generations of physicians The origins of drama and the art of acting are the subject of speculation among historians, anthropologists, and archeologists However, it is reasonably certain that formal drama started in Greece, the birthplace of Western... patient case portrayed by the SPs has its own checklist of items that the SPs fill out, documenting what the medical student (the examinee during an actual exam) has done in the course of the interaction with them as the patient xxvi Introduction one after another in a clinical setting, just as primary care physicians see patients in their clinical practices These types of examinations are usually given... perform at xxviii Introduction the highest level possible to assure that the data the SPs report (which determine the students’ exam scores) are highly accurate in representing the medical students’ actual clinical performances Each chapter in Part Two describes the practical and sequential steps of SP training including the training procedures themselves Chapter 5 covers the steps for recruiting the . history of the use of standardized patients in medical education entitled Following the Threads of an Innovation. Coaching Standardized Patients For Use in the. Coaching 184 The Goal of Training Session Two 186 The Training Setting 186 Summary of the Training Activities 186 Reminders 188 Session Two Training Activities