Covid-19 pandemy effect on educational process in simulation medical technologies with standardized patients application

Abstract

During the development of COVID-19 pandemicallover the world, many educational institutions have undergone changes in the educational process and modified their lessons as online classes. It is having a big influence on lessons with practical skills, and not less on the lessons with Standardized Patients (SP). Where a crucial feature is a direct conversation between students and SP. The simulated patient (standardized patient) is a dynamic learning method that is used in an interactive teaching sitting to improve the professional conduct of the trainee (student) as in the real situation, it also is used in the clinical examinations such as an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to test the acquired clinical and communication skills of the trainees (students). In this study, we conducted a comparative analysis of the results of graduation certification of senior students during the exam in the OSCE in three disciplines where there were compulsory stations for a standardized patient. These stations were in the following disciplines: anesthesiology and reanimation, general practice-family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology