Peel Roleplay on Tour – Teaching Session and Feedback Training
In the olden days of the late 1980s, when I began working as a Simulated Patient, we were simply audio-visual aids. We learned our brief, played our role and then left the room. The idea that we might have anything else to contribute was never even considered. Times have changed. Simulation is used in many […]
International Nurses Training at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
“How am I supposed to know which to say to a patient? Do I say heart attack or myocardial infarction? They are both English to me!” A Malaysian student asked me this some years ago and ever since then I have been interested in how international healthcare professionals deal with the mysteries of spoken English […]
LivDocSim – Preparation for Practice
For the past few years, Peel Roleplay have been pleased to support LivDocSim by providing Simulated Patients to support the week-long teaching of simulated clinical practice, virtual reality and workshops to prepare students for Foundation Training. This large-scale, intensive teaching experience is an important part of the course for all Year 5 Student Doctors at […]
Simulated Patients Training For Assessment
“We need more doctors!” I hear it all the time and everywhere: in the media, on the train, even in the supermarket checkout queue. “No appointments for weeks! Not enough doctors!” I don’t think many people would disagree, but it takes a minimum of five years to train a doctor, so it can’t be done […]
A New Partnership with Kent and Medway Medical School
PEEL Roleplay are absolutely delighted to announce that our new partnership with Kent and Medway officially commenced today as our first Simulated Patients attended communication skills teaching sessions at the Canterbury Christ Church campus. Last year, in the midst of the pandemic, we were pleased to speak with the KMMS team about our services and […]
The COVID 19 Pandemic – Going Online
Almost exactly one year ago, in what feels like another world, we wouldn’t have dreamt that the majority of the Simulated Patient sessions we’d be facilitating would be online. Yet, that’s now the case, and at the 1 year anniversary of ‘Going Online’ it felt like a moment to reflect and look back. Partnerships are tested […]
In Role And Out Of Role
“Would you like feedback in role, or would you prefer it if I come out of role and give feedback that way?” – In teaching sessions at medical schools and in other training environments, sometimes Simulated Patients are asked to give feedback in role: sometimes it’s out of role. For feedback in role, they play […]
Why Simulated Patients? Why Not Volunteers?
Daphne Franks, our Simulated Patient Trainer and experienced SP herself, explains the crucial differences between Simulated Patients and volunteer patients and their impact on medical students’ learning:It’s a rainy August. The summer Medical School examinations have finished and the new academic year is about to begin. Thousands of keen and nervous new medical students will […]
Feeling the Feelings
Our Simulated Patient Trainer and Facilitator, Daphne Franks, has many years of experience training Simulated Patients and knows what it takes to be a highly skilled and valued SP. We asked Daphne a question that people in the field of Simulated Patient work are often asked, in order to share her invaluable insight: “But how […]
Peel Roleplay at ASPiH Conference 2018
Jess and Laura from the Peel Roleplay team were delighted to be able to attend the ASPiH Conference 2018 last month, to network with other experts in medical simulation, to gain insight into others’ practices and how those might work for us and our clients, and also to learn more about digital simulation and how this is being incorporated […]