Medical schools are training students in a form of care that the system can’t—or won’t—provide.

When Sarah Davis pretends she’s sick, she’s not avoiding her job—she’s doing it. For the last 16 years, Davis has been part of UMass Medical School’s (UMMS) standardized patient program, through which ...

Erin Cronican has sensitive feet—she tells the medical students this every time they try to test her Babinski reflex to make sure her nerves are working correctly. But without fail, they dig the edge ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Through VCU’s Standardized Patient Program, actors find themselves on an uncommon stage and medical students find themselves practicing to perform difficult conversations. It ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that the “number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 (has) risen to…59.5 million persons” due to global ...

A group of workers at Thomas Jefferson University who are paid to simulate patients for medical students celebrated a victory earlier this year when they won a union election. But six months later, ...

Occupational therapy educators are challenged to prepare students entering the profession to be skilled in assessment, critical thinking, self-analysis, and decision-making. Simulation is an effective ...

The 45-year-old patient, Sally Artesaros, sat on the exam table, her body hunched in pain with her palm cradling the right side of her temple. "It's sharp and it's pounding," she said of the migraine ...

Norma Jones was admitted to Tech General Hospital Wednesday after suffering a stroke, shortly after calling a neighbor to tell her she needed help. Students from Texas Tech University Health Sciences ...

Natalie Wilder was sitting on a couch in a greenroom, using her iPhone to apply for a part in a film. Back in June, she starred in a one-woman play, “Fresh Hell: The Life and Loves of Dorothy Parker,” ...