The Center for Advanced Clinical Learning and Simulation

The STANDARDIZED PATIENT PROGRAM is within the Center for Advanced Clinical Learning and Simulation, which is a member of the Office of Educational Affairs. This program is conducted during all four years of the Medical School curriculum. Our program is a state of the art Center with ten clinical examination rooms to date; an additional two rooms will be completed in Summer 2006. Each room is equipped as a comprehensive clinical room, with advanced digital video recording capabilities and computers both immediately inside the clinical room and a student station outside the room, for examinations. All rooms are available on the closed circuit video monitoring system. In addition, a twenty-four person computer equipped classroom, a twelve person video-monitoring station and a separate simulation room completes the Center for Advanced Clinical Learning and Simulation.

The student will:

• Learn and be evaluated on interpersonal, history taking and physical skills during their Physical Diagnosis Year I and II.
• Learn and be evaluated on their communications skills during their Physical Diagnosis Year I and II.
• Learn physical examination techniques from faculty clinicians then the students will perform these organ system examinations during their Year II and Year III.
• Learn and be evaluated on their interpersonal skills, their ability to obtain an abbreviated history and perform a focused physical examination that revolves around a medical complaint during their Year III.
• Be evaluated on their ability to obtain a comprehensive history and physical examination, including their interpersonal and communications skills, examination technique and sequencing during the Year II and Year IV.