Playing Sick, Paid Actors portray patients for medical students at COMP-Northwest

Sarah Brown

Medical students are taught all about the human body and medical problems that may be encountered, but learning how to interact with a patient can only be learned by experience.

Students at the COMP-Northwest medical school in Lebanon gain that experience from standardized patients – or SPs – hired by the university.

“A standardized patient is really an actor that learns how to portray the patient in a realistic and believable way,” said…

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