A research for training and utilization of "Simulated Patient" as educational resource.

我们的课题组是为了介绍医学专业人员和学生学习与病人交流的教育资源《模拟病人》而组建的。为了推广这一方法，我们开展了以下工作：1.收集了大量关于“模拟病人”训练和利用的文献。参考这些产品，我们回顾了我们的模拟患者培训课程以及在教育活动中使用它们的方法。先后两次举办模拟病人志愿者说明会，80名市民参加。再加上之前训练过的10名模拟患者，我们训练了20名志愿者成为模拟患者。我们编写了80个模拟专利播放的场景。利用这些模拟患者，我们举办了100多次教育活动(如研讨会、工作坊和专题讲座)。在每个活动中，从4到100名参与者接受了培训，以认识到与患者沟通的重要性。参加者包括医科学生、医生、护士、药剂师、社会工作者、家务助理等。在这些活动的一部分中，我们使用了三到五个(比平时更多的)模拟患者，以使许多参与者能够体验与模拟患者一起扮演的角色。在几乎所有这些活动中，我们都使用了录像机，以便参与者可以轻松地对他们与模拟患者的角色扮演进行自我评估。我们还向教育机构的教师介绍了这些教育资源。我们在日本医学教育协会的年度会议上报道了这些活动。

Our research group was organized with the aim of introducing the educational resource "Simulated Patient" which is useful for medical professionals and students to learn to communicate with patients. In order to diffuse this method, we carried the following out.1. We collected much literature on the training and utilization of "Simulated Patient". Referring these products, we reviewed our curricula for training of simulated patients and methods to utilize them in educational events.2. We held the explanatory meetings for volunteers for simulated patients twice, and eighty citizens took part in them.3. Adding to ten simulated patients who had been trained before, we trained twenty volunteers to become simulated patients.4. We wrote eighty scenarios for simulated patents to play.5. Utilizing these simulated patients, we held educatinal events (e.g. ; seminar, workshop, and special lecture) more than one hundred times. In each events, from four to one hundred participants were trained to recognize the importance of communication with patients. Participants were medical students, medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, home helpers, and so on.6. In a part of these events, we used three or five (more than usual) simulated patients to make it possible that a lot of participants experienced the role plays with simulated patients.7. In almost all of these events, we used video recorder to make it easy for participants to do self-assessments for their role plays with simulated patients.8. We also introduced these educational resources to the teachers of educational institutes.9. We reported these activities at the anual meetings of the Japan Society for Medical Education.