role play

[Adam Blatner]

Did y'all see this from  "Gregory Ford" <gregoryford at RCN.COM> to the
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Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:50 AM
Subject: Efficacy of Role Play


> Hello, everyone.    I sometimes hear people questioning the efficacy of role play.  The 
> bottom line probably is that it is used universally.  But you need to  look at different 
> disciplines to see their documentation of it.
 There is a group called The Association of Standardized Patient Examiners, for example. 
What they do is train using role play or  otherwise known as simulations.  The train 
nurses, doctors.  I know that some firms train attorneys using simulations.  Our military 
could not function without it.
     Here's an example of exploration of the use of role play in training in the medical 
profession.  http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/
> content/full/31/5/358
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>  How Do Examiners and Examinees Think About Role-Playing of  Standardized Patients in an 
> OSCE Setting?
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> And, a history of the Standardized Patients Methodology
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> http://www.aspeducators.org/wallace.htm
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> And an organization that governs the licensing of people who teach  using simulation in 
> the medical profession.
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> http://www.aspeducators.org/index.htm
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> If you're interested in doing more research on the efficacy of role  play you might look 
> under the specific discipline area in which which  the training is to take place and 
> then look under training and then  look under simulations or role play rather than 
> dramatherapy or  psychodrama
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>
>
> Gregory Ford
> gregoryford at rcn.com
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