{"id":698,"date":"2020-02-29T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/simlab\/?p=698"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:11:09","slug":"the-benefits-of-standardized-clients-evidence-from-the-medical-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/2020\/the-benefits-of-standardized-clients-evidence-from-the-medical-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Standardized Clients: Evidence from the Medical World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Benefits of Standardized Clients: Evidence from the Medical World\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/tse-feb-23-2020-standardized-patients-header.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>(Photograph courtesy of MacEwan University)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 21, 2020, CBC published an article on the value of standardized patients in the medical field. Actors take on the role of these standardized patients and play out a range of situations with medical practitioners \u2013 including difficult and high-stress scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These standardized patients encourage medical students and doctors to develop various skills. According to CBC, &#8220;working with standardized patients gives medical students a chance to practice an important skill: how to suspend judgement.&#8221; Through standardized patients, medical students are taught how to recognize and restrain their potential biases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, standardized patients help medical practitioners develop a more profound sense of empathy towards patients through rapport building and obtaining a more holistic and compassionate perspective of the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akin to standardized patients in the medical realm, simulation and the use of actors in social work can similarly encourage social work students to develop key skills, including rapport-building, empathy and other therapeutic competencies. Through simulation, these skills can be taught in a safe manner without the risk of harming real clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Read the full CBC article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thesundayedition\/the-sunday-edition-for-february-23-2020-1.5468283\/how-standardized-patients-are-helping-a-new-generation-of-doctors-by-acting-out-ailments-1.5469781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Read more about the value of using of simulation in teaching social work practice <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/2016\/blog-the-use-of-simulation-in-teaching-social-work-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/2016\/becoming-comfortable-discomfort-spotlight-kenta-asakura\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photograph courtesy of MacEwan University) On February 21, 2020, CBC published an article on the value of standardized patients in the medical field. Actors take on the role of these standardized patients and play out a range of situations with medical practitioners \u2013 including difficult and high-stress scenarios. These standardized patients encourage medical students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}