The Clinical Learning Center (CLC) is a state-of-the art teaching and assessment center that provides opportunities for medical students to learn clinical skills in a simulated clinical setting. Twelve examination rooms and one interview room are equipped with the latest in clinical and audio visual equipment to allow students to learn and practice in a non-threatening environment. 

Standardized patients are community members who are hired to portray specific medical and psychosocial problems for the medical students' practice and evaluation.  Students use standardized patients to practice skills such as:

• obtaining a medical history,
• conducting an appropriate physical examination,
• documenting findings,
• developing treatment management plans and
• counseling patients.

Activities in the Clinical Learning Center can be videotaped for learning and assessment purposes.  In addition, training simulators and mannequins are used to teach such clinical assessment and intervention skills as heart, lung and bowel sounds, venipuncture and catheterization.