https://www.selleckchem.com/products/blu-667.html Digital teaching with SP was rated "very good" by 63% of the students and "good" by 37% as an overall mark for the course. The digital implementation is well practicable, the retention and accessibility of all learning goals is rated as given. Conclusion Digital teaching with SP can be well realized with appropriate preparation. Specific aspects of digital implementation (e.g. role and data protection) must be taken into account. The differentiated evaluation of the surveys will bring further results and deductive questions.Objective In the spring of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the question arose at Hannover Medical School as to how simulated patients (SP) could still be utilized in the communication course that is part of the module "Diagnostic methods" taught in the second year of the model medical curriculum known as HannibaL. Methods This short report summarizes the process of implementing the utilization of SP in analog classroom teaching and describes the relevant results on the concluding Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in comparison to the previous year. Results Overall, the analog SP deployments were practicable under local conditions and in compliance with precautionary measures to curb the risk of infection, whereby the OSCE scores did not deviate significantly from those in the prior year. Conclusion During the COVID-19 pandemic and perhaps other epidemics as well, it will continue to be important in the future to make locally adapted, purpose-oriented, and preventively effective decisions regarding university didactics in undergraduate studies.The Corona virus pandemic rendered most live education this spring term impossible. Other formats and new ideas were needed to offer students the opportunity to learn unchanged learning content and outcomes. To replace our module on ethics and ethical decision making in emergency medicine with simulation patients we developed an e-le