Where to find a database of Standardized Patient Scripts?

[KiddCo]

Hello, M1 here.

Our school has standardized patient encounters almost every week. I think they are great, and would love to practice more.

A decent number of my classmates are interested in practicing some basic history taking/vitals/oldcarts type of stuff.

My question is: does anyone know of a resource that has some pre-made patient scripts we could use? A simple google search has turned nothing useful.

Or maybe there is an easier way to go about it? Would love to hear some recommendations!

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[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Oh you sweet summer child. I hope they are formative and not graded. Once you start seeing real patients, your opinion of SP encounters will probably change. If they are formative, just use them as the practice. There are better things to spend your time on.

 

[TelemarketingEnigma]

If you just want to practice the process with friends, it can be a great opportunity to work on your improv skills 🙂 I always enjoyed coming up with silly patient scenarios for friends who wanted to practice. Can also be a helpful exercise for you as the "patient" to think through what your symptoms/findings might be for whatever fake illness you're portraying.

 

[ACSurgeon]

Try to get a copy of first aid step 2 CS for scenarios to practice

 

[Redpancreas]

Try to get a copy of first aid step 2 CS for scenarios to practice

This is just what I was going to say for the history at least. As others have said, find a better way to spend your time. The time to practice with real patients will come and there’s no great way to simulate it no matter how much some people try.

 

[mrbreakfast]

You might have to pay for something like that. People typically don't write med student study materials for free. You might be able to find some old Step 2 CS stuff for very cheap, though. Going through First Aid for CS would probably be exactly what you want.

 

[mvenus929]

If you look at MedEdPortal, they have a lot of standardized patient cases, but it's probably much more involved than you're thinking. Training an SP for a clinical scenario takes a couple of hours (they learn the full history of the patient they intend to play), so it's not like they have a script that they just follow. MedEdPortal also is set up to have the cases packaged in a way that they could be implemented by someone in a simulation center, so they'll have the case scenario, but will also have information on how to implement and what's needed for the case, which is probably information you're not interested in right now, and it can be hard to figure out which file is the actual case.

So, I second the advice above to use case scenarios designed for a medical student. They should give you enough information to portray a patient and you can use your own history to fill in the gaps.