Abstract: There are several special advantages of the application of Standardized Patients (SPs) in the assessments of clinical skills examination of medical practitioners. However, this application in China be restricted by some limit factors, such as the shortage of SP trainers and SPs, the huge funds needed and the imbalance of regional development. The suggestion to overcome those limitation and to promote SPs be applied to the clinical skills examination of medical practitioners are as follow: the preparatory of regional university union of SPs, the introduction of social capital to participate in and the adoption of the mode of scale operation.

Key words: Standardized Patients, The clinical skills examination of medical practitioners