BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:227@each.international DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T173000 DTSTAMP:20260206T103049Z URL:https://each.international/fr/calendar/how-to-maximise-the-impact-of-w orking-with-simulated-patients-in-communication-skills-teaching/ SUMMARY:How to Maximise the Impact of Working with Simulated Patients in Co mmunication Skills Teaching (Online Course) DESCRIPTION:Simulated patients (SPs)\, also referred to as actors or role p layers\, are a significant investment in healthcare education and when use d skilfully\, they can transform communication skills teaching\, impacting learners’ confidence\, ability and future practice.\n\nThis highly prac tical 3.5-hour online course is designed for healthcare communication teac hers who want to maximise the educational value of working with SPs in sma ll-group teaching. Participants will explore evidence-based strategies\, t eaching techniques\, and facilitation skills that enhance realism\, deepen learner engagement\, and ensure SP time is used efficiently and effective ly.\n\nThe course focuses on what teachers can do before\, during\, and af ter SP encounters to optimise learning\, feedback quality\, and learner co nfidence—without increasing cost or complexity.\n\nWorkshop focus\n\nThi s workshop explores how communication-skills teachers can maximise the edu cational value of simulated patients (SPs) during experiential teaching.\n \nLearning Objectives\nBy the end of this workshop\, participants will be able to:\n\n Facilitate small-group sessions that maximise learner partic ipation and psychological safety\n Identify and effectively manage common challenges that arise during SP role-play\n Use Agenda-Led Outcomes-Base d Analysis (ALOBA) to set an appropriate level of challenge while maintain ing flexibility within SP role-play\n Demonstrate how to calibrate the le vel of emotional intensity in a role-play to meet learners’ individual n eeds\n Guide SPs to deliver specific\, descriptive\, and learner-focused feedback\n Intervene skilfully during SP encounters to enhance learning w ithout disrupting realism\n\nTeaching Methods\nThis workshop will use a hi ghly interactive approach\, with participants actively exploring many of t he techniques used in effective SP-based teaching. It will aim to model be st practice in experiential learning and\, allowing participants to both e xperience and critically examine strategies throughout.\n\nMethods will in clude:\n\n Brief targeted teaching inputs to introduce key concepts and f rameworks\n Observation and analysis of simulated patient encounters\n F acilitated small-group discussion and reflection\n Skills practice focuse d on facilitation\, intervention\, and feedback\n Use of real-world examp les drawn from participants’ own teaching context\n\nFacilitators:\n\nMa rcy Rosenbaum\, PhD\, is Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in the US. She is the former President of EACH and former co-chair of tEACH\, the teaching committee of EACH. She h as conducted research on and taught about clinical communication and medic al education for over 30 years with a particular emphasis on experiential simulation and workplace based communication learning.\n\n[caption id="att achment_23270" align="alignnone" width="128"] Marcy Rosenbaum\, Family Med icine[/caption]\n\nSandra Winterburn is an emeritus Associate Professor at Norwich Medical School\, University of East Anglia\,UK.\nShe has a backgr ound in nursing and has been actively involved in teaching clinician-patie nt communication to a range of professional groups\, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level\, for more than 20 years. Sandra is is former Co-C hair of the teaching committee (tEACH) within EACH and has a particular in terest in: -Small group experiential teaching methods -Train the Trainers initiatives - &\; Curriculum Design for Healthcare communication.\n\n\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nKim Taylor Simulated Patient . Kim Taylor’s work as a simulated patient in the field of Clinical Comm unication Skills training has led to workshops and courses with doctors an d healthcare professionals throughout the UK and internationally from Norw ay to USA\, throughout Europe to South Africa. At undergraduate level\, Ki m works in experiential sessions with medical students at the University o f Cambridge and has recently consulted on several projects for the Univers ity including simulated patient training and a review of the SP recruitmen t process. With a special interest in the development of training material s\, Kim has devised and delivered simulated patient training in the UK\, P ortugal\, Austria\, Russia and Sri Lanka.\n\n\n\nCost - Members £120  No n-members £135 CATEGORIES:EACH Course END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR