Goal:
The goal of the Clinical Assessment Center is to provide a clinical setting for teaching, assessing and testing clinical skills of medical students and residents through mock patient-doctor encounters.
Objectives:
1. Maintain and train a cadre of Standardized Patients appropriate for educational, assessment and testing activities for the medical students and residents;
2.Teach and assess clinical skills for medical students by providing opportunities for practicing medical interviews, conducting practice physical exams, providing practice/teaching sessions for the more sensitive physical exams such as breast and pelvic exams, male GU exam, and pre-natal ultrasounds;
3.Assess students' clinical skills by working with medical faculty to plan, develop, implement and evaluate Objective Structured Clinical Exams for students in the specialty rotations;
4.Assess students' pre- graduation clinical skills by working with medical faculty to plan, develop, implement and evaluate the Objective Structured Clinical Exam as a minimal competency exam for students at the end of their junior year;
5.Identify medical students who are not at the expected level of performance;
6.Assist in referral and remediation of students not at the expected level of performance;
7.Maintain a library of models to be used for students' clinical training.