May 22, 2012, 12:03 am

Program teaches medical students about interactions

For most people, acting sick gets them a day off from work. For Jillian Priebe and nearly 100 others in the area, coughing and complaining of back pain is what they do for a living.

Priebe is a standardized patient at Georgia Health Sciences University’s Medical College of Georgia, a program instituted in 1992 to help medical students better interact and relate with patients while still in a learning environment. Standardized patients learn symptoms for various ailments and act them out for medical students, and then rate them on how they conduct the medical exam and show empathy.

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