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Clinical Skills Center

Exam Room in Clinical Skills CenterA highlight of the Setnor Academic Building is the Clinical Skills Teaching Center, which includes 22 exam rooms, closed-circuit monitoring and state-of-the-art medical equipment. It is in this space that students will shape their "bedside manner" and clinical skills.

In the Clinical Skills Teaching Center, students will practice taking medical histories and performing exams on "standardized patients" or actors role-playing as patients. The meeting between physician and patient will take place just as it does in the doctor's office. The student will take a medical history and conduct a patient exam. An instructor in an adjoining room will watch the exchange between patient and physician from a video monitor. Later, the student and instructor will view the video and discuss ways to improve communications with the patient.

 

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