Teaching nurses to become nurse practitioners is difficult under any circumstances, but when the student is part of a distance learning program the opportunity to role model professional behaviors can be elusive. A differential diagnosis course that was previously taught in an on-campus setting needed to be restructured for students at a distance. On-campus students in this course have the opportunity to conduct a patient interview with a standardized patient (SP), an actor trained to portray a patient with a uniform set of symptoms and history. This article describes the formation of an interprofessional team who used instructional technology to replicate this experience for the distance learning students who would not be able to personally interact with standardized patients.