The Clinical Education and Assessment Center (CEAC) provides a custom-designed setting where students, medical residents,  physicians and other practicing health professionals can learn, practice and be evaluated on the skills they need to communicate and work effectively with patients.  The CEAC has 16 fully equipped exam rooms and a central control room.  In the exam rooms, which replicate a physician’s examining room, trainees work with specially trained “standardized patients.”  The standardized patient (SP) may portray a disease or medical condition, or, may be a healthy patient with whom a student practices taking a history and performing a physical examination.  Often the SP will complete an electronic post-encounter checklist after the encounter.  Trainees may also complete a post-encounter activity (patient note) at one of the 16 hallway stations.  Faculty observe the live interactions at 16 dedicated observation-evaluation stations or view remotely.  Faculty or students may be given access to review the recorded  encounters.

The Medical Simulation Center at Drexel University College of Medicine offers students the chance to work in a realistic patient care environment.  The simulation center is a state-of-the-art facility with over 10,000 square feet of learning and teaching space, including rooms for structured practice, debriefing, skills assessment and task training sessions.  The simulation center's 6 hospital patient rooms are equipped with a patient diagnostic monitor, functioning beds, gas rails and sinks, and are configured to simulate patient care in the hospital setting.  Cameras and microphones can record the simulation to be viewed in an immediate debrief session after.  A central control room with 1-way windows into each patient room is used to run simulations and control what appears on the bedside patient monitor.