@ARTICLE{Sadeghi, author = {Sadeghi, Majid and Taghva, Arsia and Mir-sepassi, Gholam Reza and Hasanzadeh, Mehdi and }, title = {Attitude of Psychiatric Professors and Residents towards Performance of Standardized Patients in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination in Psychiatry}, volume = {13}, number = {1}, abstract ={ Objectives: The increasing use of standardized patients in the psy-chiatric Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) promoted the investigators to explore the viewpoints of examining professors and participating psychiatric residents towards the performance of the standardized patients. Method: In an OSCE, 22 of the final year psychiatric residents and 16 examiners participated in our study. Performance of the 8 standardized patients in all 8 stations was evaluated after the test. Results: This study showed acceptable and appropriate performance of standardized patients both in acting according to and in actualizing the scenarios. Conclusion: Use of standardized patients in psychiatric OSCE is recommended by the examining professors and also residents.  }, URL = {http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-137-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-137-en.pdf}, journal = {Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology}, doi = {}, year = {2007} }