Patient simulation

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In medical education, patient simulation is "the use of persons coached to feign symptoms or conditions of real diseases in a life-like manner in order to teach or evaluate medical personnel."[1]

Unannounced standardized patients

Unannounced standardized patients have been compared to other methods of observation in order to establish validity.[2]

Unannounced standardized patients to evaluate the performance of physicians in practice.[3]

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