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Fostering relationships, developing clinical skills
Making better clinicians
In the second week of medical school, each new student embarks on a four-year relationship with the team at UC Irvine Health School of Medicine's Clinical Skills Center.
There, they begin learning — and ultimately perfecting — the clinical skills they'll need on their path to becoming physicians, says Sue Ahearn, director of Curricular Resources and Clinical Assessment for the medical school.
"What I enjoy most is to really foster relationships with the students, to watch and help them develop the skills that will make them better clinicians," says Ahearn, a trained nurse who has been teaching would-be doctors for more than 20 years at UC Irvine.
"We have a 'can-do attitude,' " she says of her team.
"I truly believe that what we do here does make a difference."