About Peer Patient
Overview
Background
Learning Objectives
Background
Learning Objectives
Overview
Peer Patient is designed for individuals from all healthcare professional disciplines and is designed specifically for undergraduate learners. This resource consists of online learning modules pertaining to skills in acting, observing movement, observing body language and learning through simulation activities utilising a web-based learning activities, to enable translation of patient portrayal skills to the simulation based classroom.
The resource will provide undergraduate health professional learners a safe learning environment where they can develop and practice non-technical skills prior to engaging in a simulation based classroom experience.
Peer Patient consists of three online learning modules.
Module 1: How to... focuses on the development of:
Module 2: Patient Cases is a password protected space, where patient case information including scripts, medical record information and videos of the real patients the cases are based on is available.
Module 3: Feedback for Learning is focussed on supporting students to learn the principles and processes of giving feedback to support learning. Module 3 will be completed in 2018.
This resource is designed to be completed prior to attending the simulation based classroom experience, and clinical placements, to enable learners to maximise learning opportunities in the clinical setting.
Time to Complete the Peer Patient Modules
The activities should be undertaken across a four to six week time period and take a total of approximately 15 hours to complete.
Students should be allocated time to practice skills, complete activities outside of the online learning space, and reflect on the patient role to be portrayed.
The resource will provide undergraduate health professional learners a safe learning environment where they can develop and practice non-technical skills prior to engaging in a simulation based classroom experience.
Peer Patient consists of three online learning modules.
Module 1: How to... focuses on the development of:
- observation of movement,
- observation of body language
- acting skills.
Module 2: Patient Cases is a password protected space, where patient case information including scripts, medical record information and videos of the real patients the cases are based on is available.
Module 3: Feedback for Learning is focussed on supporting students to learn the principles and processes of giving feedback to support learning. Module 3 will be completed in 2018.
This resource is designed to be completed prior to attending the simulation based classroom experience, and clinical placements, to enable learners to maximise learning opportunities in the clinical setting.
Time to Complete the Peer Patient Modules
The activities should be undertaken across a four to six week time period and take a total of approximately 15 hours to complete.
Students should be allocated time to practice skills, complete activities outside of the online learning space, and reflect on the patient role to be portrayed.
Background
Simulation based learning has been confirmed to be an effective way to support the development of knowledge and skills for healthcare professionals, including clinical decision making and communication skills (Pritchard et al. 2016). Most frequently, simulated patients, people filling the role of the patient has been used in allied health professional training. Health professional students have also been role playing patient cases for decades in classrooms, and considering that simulated patients have been demonstrated to be efficacious for learning clinical skills and decision making, providing support for students to fill the role of patient may enhance these role play classroom experiences. This website has been designed to support the development of people who will fill the role of patient in simulation based learning activities, with the health professional student at the centre of being that simulated patient. Peer Patient is exactly that, an online learning experience where the student becomes the patient to support peer based learning in simulated classroom experiences.
Learning Objectives
By the conclusion of module 1 learners will:
- Understand the principles of acting as described in the Stanislavski techniques and the Strasberg’s Method
- Relate the Stanislavski techniques and the Strasberg’s Method to filling the role of a simulated patient
- Analyse the effective uses of the human voice as a means of communicating ideas and feelings, and demonstrate communication of emotions through verbal and physical means.
- Demonstrate an ability to mirror movement, both normal and abnormal movement patterns.
- Demonstrate basic competency in acting, voice and speech, and movement to realistically replicate a simulated patient case.
- Recall the components of a simulated case that are important to access and review prior to filling the role of simulated patient, and understand why the components are essential for filling the role.
- Recall the information about their character for the simulation based learning experience
- Understand how the pathophysiological changes associated with the disease process lead to the signs and symptoms, impairments, activity limitations, participation and the patients’ sense of self.
- Be able to accurately portrayal the movement and emotions of a specific patient case in a simulation based classroom experience.
- Realistically improvise in character of the specific patient case in a simulation based classroom experience.
