Application of students standardized patient in teaching and assessment of physical examination skills / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Training a few medical students as standardized patients to teach and test other medical students'physical examination skills is a good way to compensate the deficient teaching resources and improve the medical students'clinical capabilities.Methods We spent 12 class hours to train 6 students as standardized patients.Then we used these 6 students'standardized patients to help the teacher to educate medical students in experimental group,while students in the control group only had traditional class under the construction of the teachers as before.At last,we collected their final physical examination skills'score.Results The final physical examination skill score of experimental group(85.78?5.89)is higher than that of control group(84.53?4.64)(P