The life of a “standardized” patient
“Colvin is a professional patient, trained to role-play specific medical conditions to train nursing students, emergency medical personnel, police, medical students and residents at the Center for Studies of Clinical Performance at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.
Officially, Colvin is known as a ‘standardized patient.'”
The toughest standardized patients to be would be the ones where medical students would practice pelvic exams on.
