Six professors from the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Portugal (FM-UCP) have developed a scale to assess the performance of simulated patients in medical education.

The study, recently published in Medical Teacher , introduces the Lisbon Assessment of Simulated Patients (LASP) scale, a tool that evaluates the quality of simulated patient representation during clinical encounters and the feedback provided to medical students. In Portugal, the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University is the only one to systematically employ this methodology in its curriculum.

“The new LASP scale reinforces one of the pillars of medical training: communication with patients. The result will be even more effective training in skills such as empathy, active listening, and clarity in communication – the so-called soft skills – contributing to the training of a new generation of doctors better prepared for patient-centered practice,” says Paulo Oom, coordenator of Skillslab, at Católica Medical School, quoted in a statement.

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