Becoming a simulation patient
As a simulation patient, you enable medical students to learn in a realistic way. By providing re-registration from the patient's perspective, you support students' reflection and communication skills and thus help to prepare and improve contact with real patients. Simulated patients can also be used to practice dealing with challenging situations and strong emotions in a protected environment.
Are you interested in taking part? Then we look forward to hearing from you!
Requirements
- Enjoy acting and presenting (possibly even with experience in amateur or professional acting)
- Appreciative, positive attitude towards the learning process
- Constructive Communications is important to you
- Reliability and punctuality
- Availability during the day, by arrangement
No previous medical knowledge is required.
In some simulation scenarios, physical examinations are carried out, for example listening to the heart or lungs or palpating joints. Our simulation patients receive comprehensive information in advance about which examination steps they can expect in the respective assignment and can thus decide individually whether they feel comfortable with them. Participation in physical examinations is voluntary and can also be refused completely.
Your way to us
If you are interested in becoming a simulation patient, please contact us. Simply fill out the profile sheet below so that we can obtain some information about you and your contact details.
We will then get in touch with you to discuss the next steps.
The next step is to get to know each other in group casting.
By way of introduction, we will tell you more about our program and provide space for questions. You can then warm up with a few exercises on improvisation and presentation before experiencing what it feels like to be a simulation patient in the first short simulation discussions.
To prepare you for your work as a simulation patient, the next step is our two-part workshop.
Firstly, you will learn and practise the basics of acting, for example how physical symptoms or emotions can be portrayed. Individual role creation is also practiced. The acting workshops are conducted by professional actors who work with us as simulation patients themselves.
On the other hand, you will receive training in feedback skills. In order to provide students with helpful re-registration from the patient's perspective, we first work with you on the theoretical foundations of constructive feedback and then consolidate these through joint exercises.
Their first assignments usually take place in the interviewing internship of the Diagnostic Methods module. Second-year students practise empathic diagnostic communication and taking medical histories.
We will send you a list of appointments in which you can enter your availability. You will then receive your allocated appointments and your respective role descriptions for preparation. If you have any questions or uncertainties, both we, as the SPP-MHH team, and the specialist lecturers of the respective appointments will be available to assist you. Our simulation patients currently receive an expense allowance of 20 euros per hour for their participation. This, as well as the other framework conditions, are set out in a written agreement that you sign before your first assignment.
After you have been able to gain initial experience in a few assignments, we will invite you to an interview. We would like to hear from you how you have fared as a simulation patient, whether any uncertainties or problems have arisen and whether you are still interested in participating in our program. We will also give you re-registration from our side: what is going well, what could be improved? If both sides are satisfied, your "trial period" ends and you will be added to our database.
Welcome to the team!
Contact
Would you like to become a simulation patient with us? Then simply click on the profile sheet button and fill it out.
We will then get in touch with you.
Profile sheet
If you have any questions or other concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone or e-mail.
You can reach us at the following e-mail address simulationspatienten@mh-hannover.de
Your contact persons are
Coordination SPP-MHH Ms. Svenja Ebeling
Phone: +49 511 532-5899 | E-Mail: ebeling.svenja@mh-hannover.de
SPP-MHH office Ms. Zada Akyol
Phone: +49 511 532-4439 | E-mail: akyol.zada@mh-hannover.de
Head of SPP-MHH Prof. Dr. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psych. Thomas von Lengerke
Phone: +49 511 532-4445 | E-Mail: lengerke.thomas@mh-hannover.de