Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative study
Background: Persons who simulate patients during medical education understand the routines and the underlying script of medical consultations better. We aimed to explore how simulated patients (SPs) integrated this new understanding into their daily life, how this work affected their private life as...
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| author | Simmenroth-Nayda, Anne Marx, Gabriella Lorkowski, Thorsten Himmel, Wolfgang |
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| description | Background: Persons who simulate patients during medical education understand the routines and the underlying script of medical consultations better. We aimed to explore how simulated patients (SPs) integrated this new understanding into their daily life, how this work affected their private life as patients, and what we can learn from these changes for concepts of empowerment.Design, setting, and participants: A qualitative interview study. All SPs of Göttingen medical school who had been working longer than three semesters (n=14) were invited and agreed to take part in an open interview about their daily experience with real doctors. Documentary method was used to identify the main issues. Several cases were chosen according to maximum contrast and analysed by in-depth analysis to provide vivid examples of how simulations may affect the real life of the SPs as patients.Results: Our analysis revealed three main changes in the behaviour of SPs as real patients. They were more attentive, had a better understanding of the circumstances under which doctors work, and acted more self-confidently. From the selected cases it became apparent that working as a SP may lead to a constant and significant decrease of fear of hospitals and medical procedures or, in other cases, may enable the SPs to develop new abilities for giving feedback, questioning procedures, and explanations for real doctors.Conclusion: working as a simulated patient seems to be well-suited to understand own progression of diseases, to increase self-responsibility and to a confident attitude as patient. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-21d3078a37134a0c8d3aa68126aef4842022-12-22T00:19:14ZdeuGerman Medical Science GMS Publishing HouseGMS Journal for Medical Education2366-50172016-05-01333Doc4210.3205/zma001041Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative studySimmenroth-Nayda, Anne0Marx, Gabriella1Lorkowski, Thorsten2Himmel, Wolfgang3University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of General Practice/Family Medicine, Göttingen, GermanyUniversity Medical Center Göttingen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinic for Palliative Medicine, Göttingen, GermanyUniversity Medical Center Göttingen, Department of General Practice/Family Medicine, Göttingen, GermanyUniversity Medical Center Göttingen, Department of General Practice/Family Medicine, Göttingen, GermanyBackground: Persons who simulate patients during medical education understand the routines and the underlying script of medical consultations better. We aimed to explore how simulated patients (SPs) integrated this new understanding into their daily life, how this work affected their private life as patients, and what we can learn from these changes for concepts of empowerment.Design, setting, and participants: A qualitative interview study. All SPs of Göttingen medical school who had been working longer than three semesters (n=14) were invited and agreed to take part in an open interview about their daily experience with real doctors. Documentary method was used to identify the main issues. Several cases were chosen according to maximum contrast and analysed by in-depth analysis to provide vivid examples of how simulations may affect the real life of the SPs as patients.Results: Our analysis revealed three main changes in the behaviour of SPs as real patients. They were more attentive, had a better understanding of the circumstances under which doctors work, and acted more self-confidently. From the selected cases it became apparent that working as a SP may lead to a constant and significant decrease of fear of hospitals and medical procedures or, in other cases, may enable the SPs to develop new abilities for giving feedback, questioning procedures, and explanations for real doctors.Conclusion: working as a simulated patient seems to be well-suited to understand own progression of diseases, to increase self-responsibility and to a confident attitude as patient.http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2016-33/zma001041.shtmlpatient simulationclinical competenceundergraduate medical educationphysician-patient relationspatient participation |
| spellingShingle | Simmenroth-Nayda, Anne Marx, Gabriella Lorkowski, Thorsten Himmel, Wolfgang Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative study GMS Journal for Medical Education patient simulation clinical competence undergraduate medical education physician-patient relations patient participation |
| title | Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative study |
| title_full | Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative study |
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| title_short | Working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life – Preliminary insights from a qualitative study |
| title_sort | working as simulated patient has effects on real patient life preliminary insights from a qualitative study |
| topic | patient simulation clinical competence undergraduate medical education physician-patient relations patient participation |
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