Standardized Patient Administration (SPA) Release Notes

Handle Standardized Patient (SP)

  • Administration,

  • Scheduling,

  • Simulated Clinical Encounters and

  • Messaging

all in one place, with the help of our new Standardized Patient Administration (SPA) tool in LearningSpace Enterprise.

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IMPORTANT: See SPA System requirements here.

  1. SP Enrollment: Enroll your SPs using the SPA mobile application ('LS SP Administration') and the SP Enrollment tool.

  2. Recruit SPs: Use a single tool integrated into LearningSpace to collect, record, and follow up on the availability of Standardized Patients.

    • Contact Standardized Patients efficiently and match them easily with upcoming simulated clinical encounters.

    • Create a specific SP pool for each of your simulated clinical encounters.

    • Narrow down the pool of available SPs by confirming the most suitable candidates for your simulated clinical encounter.

  3. Filters: Search for SPs in your user database by applying various search criteria such as age, sex, race, physical details, or medical history.

  4. SPA mobile application: Use the SPA mobile application ('CAE LS SP Administration') to notify your SPs about open simulated patient positions for events
     
    After sending them requests, the selected SPs can accept or decline them.


SP Enrollment

After applying in the SPA mobile Application, new SPs get listed in the New Registrations table of the SP Enrollment tab (in Under review status).
New applicants can be approved or declined by the SP coordinators.
Approving them will move them to the Approved Registrations list and automatically create a user account in the LearningSpace system. 

Casting

Cast Sheets

Get started with Standardized Patient recruitment by setting up Cast sheets.


Sessions

Add Sessions to include the time and date of your upcoming medical training events.



Cases

Add Cases to Sessions to arrange various patient encounters during a session.

Filters

Import Case requirements set up Custom filtering options, and use the Filters feature to recruit SPs.



Request sending

Send SP requests that Standardized Patients can respond to with the Recruit SP option.



SPA mobile Application  - 'LS SP Administration'

Standardized patients can check their SP requests in the SPA mobile application ('LS SP Administration'):

They can indicate their availability by accepting or declining an appointment:

You can confirm the attendance of available SPs for each Case:

SP Group creation

Create an SP group or Group chat conversation to share information with SPs until the day of the simulated clinical event.



Chat

Keep in touch with Standardized patients with the help of our instant messaging system included in the SPA module. 
 Enter the Chat tab to view and send messages to SPs or SP coordinators. 
 

For more information, visit our Standardized Patient Administration and SPA Module - How to pages.