Examinations
Medical Examinations
Professional Role Players (PRP) is the largest supplier of role players for medical examinations in the United Kingdom, trusted by leading universities, Royal Colleges, and healthcare organisations nationwide.
We provide highly trained role players for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical assessments, ensuring every examination is consistent, realistic, and fair.
Why Choose PRP for Your Medical Examinations?
When you book with PRP, you’re choosing excellence, reliability, and professionalism. Our role players bring more than just performance they bring a deep understanding of assessment standards, clinical accuracy, and candidate experience.
Here’s what you can expect:
✔ Expertly Trained Role Players
All our role players are trained through our quality-assured PRP+ Programme, which goes beyond acting skills to instil the precision and consistency needed for high-stakes assessments.
✔ Standardisation & Consistency
Our role players are specialists in standardised assessments. They deliver reliable performances across all stations, ensuring every candidate receives a fair and comparable experience.
✔ Diverse Casting Pool
We offer a broad pool of role players of varying ages, genders, ethnicities, and languages, allowing us to meet exact scenario requirements and support culturally inclusive assessments.
✔ Realistic Character Portrayals
Our role players are equipped to authentically portray:
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Patients (with or without specific physical symptoms)
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Family members
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Healthcare professionals (including the use of appropriate medical terminology and professional behaviour)
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Bilingual characters and interpreters in multilingual scenarios
Many of our role players are fluent in English and at least one other language, with a nuanced understanding of relevant cultural dynamics.
✔ Clinical Accuracy
Role players:
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Recall scenario-specific information accurately
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Avoid over-disclosing details not yet elicited by the candidate
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Respond appropriately to physical examination techniques with realistic verbal and non-verbal cues
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Reflect clinical signs to aid accurate diagnosis where required
✔ Consistency Across Roles
For examinations requiring multiple role players in the same scenario, our performers work to ensure uniform delivery, preserving assessment integrity.
✔ Assessment Support
If required, role players can make objective observations about a candidate’s performance, contributing to examiner evaluations.
✔ Fully Managed Booking Process
PRP handles all administration, from selecting suitable role players to delivering secure, scenario-specific briefings. Our structured and dependable process ensures your examination day runs seamlessly.
Let PRP help you deliver high-quality, standardised, and equitable medical assessments that prepare future clinicians for real-world challenges.