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Teaching Humanistic Care for Women with Limited English Proficiency Using Standardized Patients
Roundtable: APGO Fac Dev Seminar 2017
Précis: Explore the factors and barriers at play in how students learn to care for patients with limited
English proficiency (LEP). Learn how to develop and integrate a curriculum for humanistic care of
patients with LEP using role play and standardized patients.
Round Table Text: Women with limited English proficiency (LEP) frequently receive suboptimal
medical care placing them at added risk for adverse events. Medical students often have little
formal training on this topic since it is thought that much of this learning happens in the clinical
setting from their preceptors. The literature shows that students experience a hidden
curriculum that does not support humanistic care of LEP patients. Educators must emphasize
the importance of humanistic care of women with LEP and integrate it into the formal
curriculum. This can be done effectively by using standardized patients in the OSCE.
Topics:
Faculty Development Seminar, 2017, Faculty, Professionalism, Systems-Based Practice & Improvement, Interpersonal & Communication Skills, UME, Assessment, Standardized Patient,
