Exams & Assessments

We can provide actor role players for exams (OSCEs) and assessments and we can help you develop exam processes and then run a successful event.

Exam support

We can assist face to face or online by providing ‘simulated patients’ (actor role players). Our actor role players are experienced in healthcare and social care exams and are trained in role depiction, standardisation, confidentiality, equality and diversity, feedback and scoring. We have many years’ experience in providing reliable, effective and appropriate actor role players for formative and summative assessments and exams.

Our actor role players fully understand the need for total confidentiality, and if required, can give relevant feedback from the unique perspective of their role.

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Large & small scale

Large or small scale OSCE involvement of simulated patients is easy for us to organise for you. Consistent role portrayal.

Feedback & scoring

Simulated patients can be involved in scoring candidates, from their perspective of the role that they are playing.

Hear from our clients

The team provide invaluable advice when it comes to the detail of individual components of assessments giving the SP perspective and angle to ensure that it is both deliverable and high quality. This has allowed us to develop the OSCE in ways that would not have been possible just a few years ago. As a result the validity of our assessments have increased enormously.

Senior Teaching Fellow

In the run up to the exams the team gives expert briefings to the SPs. This is vital to ensure that the SPs are equipped to portray the roles they have been asked to portray, in a standardised way between students and between different circuits.

Exams & Assessment Lead

All our exams are externally scrutinised by external examiners who regularly feedback that the SPs perform excellently and we have come to expect nothing less. Our internal examiners regularly give us the same feedback.

Exam Coordinator

See how we can help your team

Whether you want help setting up the OSCE or provision of simulated patients, we can assist.