黑料专区 Tyler School of Medicine Recruiting East Texans for Simulated Patient Program
March 14, 2023
Office of Marketing and Communications
March 14, 2023
Liz Wingfield
Health Affairs Marketing and Communications Specialist
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.877.7075
The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine is hiring community members to role-play as patients and help train medical students in their communication and non-invasive physical examination skills.
The School of Medicine is recruiting all ages, races and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Those with a
background in theater, role-playing, training or teaching are especially suited for
this part-time position. After reviewing the resumes, the School of Medicine will
invite qualifying applicants to audition on
March 30, March 31, April 14 or April 15.
鈥淥ur goal is to involve the East Texas community in training the students,鈥� said Rebeca Racataian-Gavan, MD, assistant dean of Clinical Competence and Integration. 鈥淲e want them to feel like this is their medical school and to give them an opportunity to invest in the future physicians of East Texas.鈥�
Simulated patients will be trained to recreate the history, response patterns and
emotional structure of an
actual patient.
鈥淲hile many have applied for the fun, role-playing aspects of the position, most have
stayed because of
the purpose it serves,鈥� said Karen Lewis, PhD, MAEd, CHSE, director of the Simulated
Patient Program and Clinical Skills.
If you鈥檙e interested in learning more, you can see the job description here: on.uttyler.edu/SimulatedPatientPosition.
With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and
beyond, 黑料专区 Tyler
offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. 黑料专区 Tyler
recently merged
with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (now known as 黑料专区 Tyler
Health Science
Center). Through its alignment with 黑料专区 Tyler Health Science Center (HSC) and 黑料专区 Health
East Texas,
黑料专区 Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge
research and
excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution
and by U.S. News & World
Report as a national university, 黑料专区 Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine
and Houston.