Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Med Educ Online. 2009 Jun 29;14:7. doi: 10.3885/meo.2009.F0000208.
There is currently a lack of information about the ways in which standardized patients (SPs) are used, how programs that facilitate their use are operated, the ways in which SP-based performance assessments are developed, and how assessment quality is assured. This survey research project was undertaken to describe the current practices of programs delivering SP-based instruction and/or assessment.
A structured interview of 61 individual SP programs affiliated with the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) was conducted over a 7-month period. A web-based data entry system was used by the 11 trained interviewers.
The two most common reported uses of SPs were learner performance assessment (88% of respondents) and small-group instruction (84% of respondents). Fifty-four percent of programs hired 51-100 SPs annually and paid an average of $15 and $16 per hour for training time and portraying a case, respectively. The average reported number of permanent program employees, excluding SPs and temporary staff, was 4.8 (sd = 3.6). The most frequently reported salary range was $30,001-$45,000.
We intend for these preliminary results to inform the medical education community about the functions of SPs and the structures of programs that implement these complex educational endeavors.
目前，关于标准化患者（SP）的使用方式、促进其使用的项目运作方式、基于 SP 的绩效评估的开发方式以及如何保证评估质量等方面的信息还很缺乏。本调查研究项目旨在描述提供基于 SP 的教学和/或评估的项目的当前实践情况。
在 7 个月的时间里，对隶属于标准化患者教育者协会（ASPE）的 61 个 SP 项目进行了结构访谈。11 名经过培训的访谈员使用了基于网络的数据录入系统。
SP 最常被报告的两种用途是学习者绩效评估（88%的受访者）和小组教学（84%的受访者）。54%的项目每年雇佣 51-100 名 SP，并分别支付 15 美元和 16 美元用于培训时间和扮演案例。报告的平均全职项目员工人数（不包括 SP 和临时员工）为 4.8（标准差=3.6）。报告的最常见薪资范围是 30001-45000 美元。
我们希望这些初步结果能让医学教育界了解 SP 的功能以及实施这些复杂教育项目的项目结构。
