Surrogate Patients in Medical Education

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Abstract
This review considers the use of surrogate patients in the teaching of part or all of the physician‐patient encounter in medical schools. It describes the areas where the use of surrogate patients has produced results superior to traditional methods of education, namely in the fields of the interview, the neurological and the pelvic examinations. It describes some of the special features of the use of surrogate patient/teachers in the pelvic examination. It discusses methods of recruiting and training surrogate patients/teachers.