%0 Journal Article %A Sadeghi, Majid %A Taghva, Arsia %A Mir-sepassi, Gholam Reza %A Hasanzadeh, Mehdi %T Attitude of Psychiatric Professors and Residents towards Performance of Standardized Patients in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination in Psychiatry %J Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology %V 13 %N 1 %U http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-137-en.html %R %D 2007 %K Standardized patients, Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), psychiatric evaluation, %X  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.  %> http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-137-en.pdf %P 25-28 %& 25 %! %9 Original Research %L A-10-1-137 %+ %G eng %@ 1735-4315 %[ 2007