Education does not stop with the Alphabet courses. Emergency Response Personnel can continue their education with hands-on experiences at OSU’s clinical skills labs.
The Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center (CSEAC)The Clinical Skills Center is an innovative, new training facility that uses state-of-the-art technology as well as actor or “standardized” patients to simulate actual patient care experiences.
The mission is to promote and provide high quality clinical education and highly accurate assessment of skills and procedures.
The CSEAC is located in the John Prior Health Sciences Library.
State-of-the-Art Learning Center
What distinguishes OSU’s Clinical Skills Center from other similar facilities is its state-of-the-art integrated audiovisual system that digitally records trainee/patient encounters and stores them on a Web-based server. This enables trainees and faculty to access and review the materials from their offices or homes via the Internet. It also features 14 patient encounter rooms, including a procedures training area. The procedures training area features human simulators and virtual reality training equipment that provide instruction in common procedures. The Center also features wireless networking for laptops, PDAs and videographing.
Simulators Available
The Clinical Skills Center offers a variety of simulators for those interested in advancing their education and ability to treat patients. The simulators featured in the Clinical Skills Center include:
- Human Patient Simulator
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) Trainers
- Laparoscopic Virtual Simulator
- Endoscopic Virtual Simulator
- Male Rectal/Prostate
- Injection/IV
- Blood Pressure
- Multi-venous Upper Limb Access
- Femoral Access
- Central Line Catheterization
- Lumber Spinal Tap
- Pelvic Exam Model
- Breast Cancer Trainer
- Auscultation Torso
- Ear Sim
- AT Kelly Torso
- Male Foley Catheterization
Standardized Patients
Standardized Patients (SPs) are a crucial component of the CSEAC. SPs participate in mock doctor-patient encounters after being specifically trained to accurately and consistently recreate the history, personality, physical findings, emotions and response patterns of an actual patient at a particular point in time. Standardized patients offer physicians an opportunity to evaluate their performance as a “doctor.”
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) may be issued from the Center for EMS for continuing education activities held in the Clinical Skills Center. Contact the Center for EMS to find out if a particular activity meets the approval criteria for CEUs from the CSEAC.
For more information on labs and fees, contact Bill Barks, CEMS program manager, at (614) 293-5101. |
