How do you become a standardized patient?

Has anyone here worked as a standardized patient, especially for intimate exams? If so, how did you find the job?

Very interesting question. I worked as healthy patient in a few drug trials involving also genital assessment but it was not as SP. When I was a post graduate student I was asked by an urology colleague to be involved in a training course of a biofeedback device.

I was curious and fascinated by her equipe so I agreed immediately.

I have several session with me in a lithotomy position and her explaining pelvic muscles location at a small group of students. I got several rectal examinations by different people and also during pelvic stimulation. She said this would not be acceptable for a real patient so the need for a SP. In a further session a catheter and a rectal probe were used to measure pressure at different sites during stimulation. I also remember I was warned course members could takes photos and video of the procedure for research personal use. The teacher purposely stopped the procedure in several occasions to permit taking photos. Take in mind a SP has to be trained for the purpose and signs a different consent form with respect to a patient or partecipant of a clinical trial. The simulation generally requires openness of the subject to have a medical procedure repeated several times by different people and with no modesty at all. It is a job for a medical fetishist indeed 😃 If you have contacts with medical/nurse students and researchers expecially in urology devices you could have an opportunity.

Try “www.indeed.com", they run ads to hire SP's constantly. Pick a state, or leave the fields blank (other than s Standardized Patient and United States), just came up with 100+ openings. More in TX and NY than other locations. Some are invasive, the ad will say if they are

I have been a standarized patient in the past, for seven plus years…. One thing, you will learn more about doctors and medicine than the students.

Contact your local medical school/nursing school -especially major universities , also contact local hospitals.

One word of cation - don't let them know you are seeking “intimate exams”… let them ask you if you are available for intimate exams, ok but my experience was for intimate exam the schools/training centers want persons they assess as dependable and participation for joys!

Thanks for your responses.

I wonder if ….

- Do they get a lot f women to volunteer for this?

- Is it more exciting to get a newbie for your SP than someone whos done it a lot? Which one is more likely to find it arousing?

I wonder if ….

- Do they get a lot f women to volunteer for this?

I doubt if they have a lot of women volunteers. Would like to hear from former medical students.