Many new medical school graduates have little experience treating patients in a stressful setting. The training course at Northwestern Memorial allows the interns to treat robotic patients and communicate with patient actors to prepare for actual bedside treatment.
According to The New York Times, the training program at Northwestern Memorial is the most rigorous in the country, and interns must pass tests in communication skills and procedures.
The course aims to get interns ready for their assignments, and to offset the increase in mortality and decrease in efficiency that often occurs when new interns join a hospital, according to the report.
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