The cognitive demands of standardized patients: Understanding limitations in attention and working memory with the decoding of nonverbal behavior during improvisations

Simulation in Healthcare

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 207-214

  Newlin Canzone, Elizabeth T ^a   Scerbo, Mark W ^a   Gliva Mcconvey, Gayle ^b   Wallace, Amelia M ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Communication; Improvisation; Mental workload; Standardized patient; Training; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TEACHING; ARTICLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84882240032     PISSN: 15592332     EISSN: 1559713X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e31828b419e     Document Type: Article

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