Role Play, Medical Training, Simulations

[Adam Blatner]

Dear All,

This is interesting, because I first encountered the idea at my medical school 50th year 
class reunion in 2003 at the University of California in San Francisco. They had recently 
established a clinical skills training center. Your article and organization is a useful 
resource and when I have time I'll revise my supplementary article for chapter 33 for my 
website www.interactiveimprov.com/   the anthology on applications of applied drama.
        I had been looking for that history. Apparently, though, a lot happened after that 
history article was written in the 1990s and the method continues to expand.
        The point is that simulations in the teaching of all kinds of medical skills is 
useful.
               So are sociodramatic enactments to explore issues---as is being done at the 
MD Anderson Health Center in Houston.

    I want this material to go out to psychodramatists, too. Thanks Gregory!  Warmly, Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Ford" <gregoryford at RCN.COM>
To: <DRAMATHERAPYLST at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:50 AM
Subject: Efficacy of Role Play - How We


> 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
>
>  How Do Examiners and Examinees Think About Role-Playing of  Standardized Patients in an 
> OSCE Setting?
>
> And, a history of the Standardized Patients Methodology
>
> http://www.aspeducators.org/wallace.htm
>
> And an organization that governs the licensing of people who teach  using simulation in 
> the medical profession.
>
> http://www.aspeducators.org/index.htm
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Gregory Ford
> gregoryford at rcn.com
>
>
> but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing  shall be well. - 
> Julian of Norwich
>
>
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