State-of-the-art Teaching Facilities. Located in the Health Sciences Building on the main Drexel campus in West Philadelphia, we provide the infrastructure to support the simulation and skills teaching needs of learners and faculty at the University across all disciplines and to community programs needing to enhance their skill sets. The Center is a state-of-the-art facility with over 10,000 square feet of learning and teaching space and ample rooms for skills attainment, structured practice, debriefing and skills assessment sessions.
Large Inventory of Simulation Training Tools. Our Center owns and maintains a large collection of low-fidelity and high-fidelity simulators to support skill acquisition sessions and structured practice sessions for core skill sets from invasive clinical skills to communication and team building skills. We are able to support highly sophisticated code/rapid response, surgical and OBGYN simulation training programs. View Equipment List
A Well Established Standardized Patient (SP) Program. The Drexel University College of Medicine has itself been a leader in innovative medical education simulation programs for more than 20 years. In the 1980's, the College of Medicine created a Clinical Learning Laboratory – the first in the region – which employed standardized patients, or actors who are taught to portray various clinical conditions and who are trained to provide feedback to students and residents. The laboratory was housed at the Queen Lane Campus of the medical college. The present location in the Health Sciences Building on the main Drexel campus is known as the Clinical Education and Assessment Center (CEAC), includes 16 exam rooms used for standardized patient encounters, and a central observation room. Use of standardize patients at the CEAC plays an important role in the College of Medicine's Clinical Skills Experience program, which is designed to teach and assess clinical skills to the more than 2,300 residents from DUCOM and outside tarining programs. See https://drexel.edu/medicine/academics/md-program/innovative-medical-technology/standardized-patients-program/ for more information abdout the standardized patient program.
An Interdisciplinary Learning Environment. Our center allows and encourages interactive curriculum development, teaching and assessment of skills between learners of every health care discipline such as therapists, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and physicians in both undergraduate and graduate medical education.