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As 2015 comes to a close, ASPE would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the ASPE eNews a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 5.
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From Oct. 27: We wish to inform our SP educator readers of an article recently published in May 2015 in the journal Patient. "The Benefits and Risks of Being a Standardized Patient: A Narrative Review of the Literature" by authors Joseph Plakson, Joseph Nicholson, Sarita Kundrod, Sondra Zabar, Adina Kalet and Lisa Altshuler of New York University, provide a thorough summary of 67 studies that reported on benefit/risk outcomes of both SPs and "real patients" (RPs), defined as real patients who teach by sharing their own medical histories and experiences.
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From Feb. 3: In December 2014, ASPE was approached by Julia Layton, a writer for the educational website How Stuff Works. She was working on an article about Standardized Patients. While she had already collected a substantial amount of factual material, she approached ASPE hoping to obtain personal insight, anecdotes and opinions from those working in the field. The writer asked those who volunteered to answer questions related to various topics, such as the utilization of standardized patients, recruitment process, training practices, examinations and medical students' interactions with SPs. She also encouraged them to share unique stories about their occupation. As you will see in the article, several institutions and ASPE members responded including our current ASPE President Karen Lewis, from George Washington University, and ASPE Publications Chair Valerie Fulmer, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. As our industry grows, articles such as this are a great resource to share with those interested in the important work of SP methodology.
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Southern California Public Radio
From Sept. 1: In the world of academia, is there anything tougher than medical school? Years of math, science, anatomy, pharmacology and dissections committed to memory; tests, labs, residencies. But how do you teach what might be the most sensitive and human part of being a doctor — bedside manner? And who do you hire to do it?
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From Sept. 29: The Board of Directors (BOD) recently received a letter from a group of ASPE members expressing concern about the decision to add a new member category for SPs and urging the board to be more transparent about its decisions. To further our understanding of their concerns, members of the Executive Committee have spoken to several of the group's members. We very much appreciate the time they took to write and to speak to us. Based on their feedback, we are taking the following steps.
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By Ruth Fanning and David Gaba
From Sept. 1: If we were to ask SP educators which aspect of simulation learning would be the most important, we would probably receive a number of responses: the experience itself, defining clear objectives, the encounter with the patient and so on. However, in this seminal paper, authors Ruth Fanning and David Gaba state that the debriefing process is the most important feature.
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Annotated by Cate Nicholas, U of Vermont
From Jan. 6: This study explored the SP characteristics that might serve as protective factors (positive reappraisal and mindfulness) when playing emotionally intense roles which could contribute to burnout.
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From Aug. 18:  Karen Szauter, MD, has done all of us a great service by providing a link to an extensive standardized patient bibliographical database housed on the UTMB Health website. The bibliography was created to provide a searchable index of more than 1500 papers that have been published since the mid-1960s that pertain to teaching or assessment using standardized patients.
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From Aug. 4:  We are pleased to highlight the winners of the ASPE 2015 Poster Award presentations. The selection process was stressful for the judges due to the number of excellent posters being evaluated and we all agreed that the process every year seems to be more and more difficult, which is testament to the quality of the research being conducted in medical schools as well as the great job done by the review committee. The awards in Innovation at the ASPE 2015 were as follows.
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By Kris Slawinski, U of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine
From March 31:  A hot topic on the SP Trainer Listserv this past fall was professional development of the SP, with responses from some just beginning the quest, and a few with a well-developed curriculum for their SPs. With a background in health education in fitness and wellness training, Kewana Smith, an SP Educator for just over a year at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, just rolled out guidelines for a certificate program for her ~89 SPs, who are designated "occasional part time help." The enticement to progress to the upper tier as a Certified SP or "C-SP," is an increase in pay, increased training opportunities to further standardize their performance and scoring, and preferred scheduling for OSCEs, among other perks.
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By Angela D. Blood, Rush Medical College Chair, ASPE Website and Social Media Committee
From Nov. 24:  We all have very busy work lives (and presumably lives outside work), so it can be difficult for educators to stay up to date with changes and developments relevant to our field. This is especially challenging for educators with significant operational responsibilities, where scholarship and professional development are largely left to one's free time. It can be challenging to go in search of new information, whereas updates that are pushed to the educators require less extra effort.
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