Little is known about simulated patient (actors) rating of empathy in examinations in terms of inter-rater reliability compared with clinical assessors or correlation with overall examination results.
In relation to the second question about whether an SP (actor) can rate empathy and how this compares to the clinical tutor rating, we found that inter-rater correlation was reasonably good.
Someone asked me at a party recently which actor I rated at the moment.
Or that actor Christoph Waltz rates a car on how good the dashboard buttons feel when he presses them?
Foran likened the list to a similar one in "The Social Network," where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, portrayed by actor Jesse Eisenberg, rated college co-eds.
For the nonunion actors, the pay rate is $10 to $20 a performance.
A person involved in the investigation indicated that the first banks to settle were among the worst actors in the rate case.
He raised the bulk of the film's $250,000 budget through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter and paid the actors a flat rate of $100 a day.
She added, "The actors are first rate, but much screen time in 'The Apostle' is given to nonactors who give the film a sweetly believable tone and fill its churchgoing scenes with blazing heart and soul".
Paying actors a weekly rate, rather than per performance, and filming both soaps at the same studio in Connecticut, which provides a 30 percent tax incentive to producers, has also helped pare costs.
