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Curriculum
The Clinical Skills Center (CSC) curriculum is designed to enhance the clinical education of medical students and residents using our technologically advanced center, located on the Medical Education Building's second floor.
The $40-million, 65,000-square-foot center is equipped with the most advanced technology to simulate clinical settings.
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Year 4
Clinical Foundations I (CF1), the first of a four-part Clinical Foundations series serving as the introductory clinical medicine course for first-year medical students. Participating medical students learn core skills in physician-patient communication, medical interviewing, physical examination, and health promotion. Additionally, students receive direct instruction in topics of professionalism, diversity, social determinates of health, kindness, mindfulness, wellbeing, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
Clinical Foundations II (CF2), the second of a four-part Clinical Foundations series serving as the clinical medicine course for second-year medical students that aims to prepare the students for the Clinical Clerkships. Participating medical students learn core skills in physician-patient communication, medical interviewing, physical examination, and health promotion. Students will participate in didactics aimed at developing clinical skills and diagnostic reasoning. Additionally, students receive direct instruction in topics of professionalism, diversity, social determinates of health, kindness, mindfulness, wellbeing, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
Clinical Foundations III, the third year in the clinical foundation series, is a pre-clinical preparation course for Clerkship Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE).
The following clerkships have OSCEs during the third year:
- Surgery
- OB GYN
- Pediatrics
- Family Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Internal Medicine
The Clinical Practice Exam (CPX) is administered early in the fourth year of medical school.
This eight-station standardized patient exam provides several measures of clinical performance. It assesses history-taking skills, physical examination skills, patient education and counseling, patient-physician communication, relationship building and clinical reasoning.
Passage of the CPX is required of all students before graduation.
Clinical Foundations IV, the fourth year in the Clinical Foundations series, has two on-call scenarios. The students work with RN's in the scenarios that are representative of on-call experiences.