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Center For Clinical Skills Education FacilitiesThe Center for Clinical Skills Education is a state-of-the-art facility for case development consultations, assessment, and teaching of clinical skills. The Center has ten fully equipped patient examination rooms for real time face-to-face interaction between student and patient. Four additional rooms will be added in the near future. Each room is equipped with dual cameras and two way audio response. In addition, each room has two doors, one for students that opens into a central corridor and the other for Standardized Patients (Sp's) which leads to an outside hallway. This allows the SP to leave the room during a break and prevents chance encounters with a student. The SP door is equipped with one-way glass. An audio jack has been install just outside the door which permits an instructor to listen and view an encounter unobserved by the student.Each room has a wall mounted touch panel that enables users to set camera angles and record the session on a DVR and playback the session in the room Stations are currently being designed for post encounters. Wall units containing a table PC and keyboard will be located outside each door in the central corridor. The area can be easily monitored by one proctor and by video camera. Instructors can control the pan-and-tilt cameras in each exam room, digitally record the exam, and communicate with the students via a microphone from a monitoring station in the central observation room. The observation room has 10 monitoring stations, each corresponding to an exam room.4 additional stations will be brought on line in the near future. Standardized Patients or instructors use tablet PC's to score students electronically. The observation room also contains a conference table, a white board,and a large screen plasma display for viewing digital videos, exam rooms or computer presentations The main control room is located off the observation room.It contains monitoring for security cameras, 14 Mac Minis for encoding video, 14 DVR's to provide back up digital recording, a large screen plasma display, a touch control panel for the plasma displays, the DVR's, a computerized timer, and monitors in the exam rooms and observation room. A small kitchen area provides a place for Standardized Patients to take a break and relax during testing. The area is equipped with a microwave, a refrigerator, and a sink. The Center has a large reception area which includes shelves for backpacks and space for orientation or debriefing. additional area is located right outside the front door so that one group can begin orientation inside, while another group can be debriefed outside.
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