Roleplay in psychiatric training and assessment

An event by the Affective Encounters: Making Space for Disturbance Research Network. To receive the Zoom link, please register online. Phill Doulton (Founder and CEO of Professional Role Players) About this event Since the 1970s, many branches of medicine have embedded forms of objective structured clinical examination (OSCEs) within their training and assessment practices. By using trained actors instead of real-life patients, OSCEs aspire to a degree of standardisation and replicability in the scenarios presented to trainee clinicians. But how does this format shape the clinical encounter as a dramatic event? In this demonstration and discussion, Phill Doulton— founder of Professional Roleplayers — will share, along with his colleague-performers, some of the scenarios employed in the for