Welcome to the Drexel University College of Medicine's Clinical Education and Assessment Center (CEAC) and the Medical Simulation Center with facilities located at the Health Sciences Building on the Philadelphia Campus and at the West Reading Campus.

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 fully equipped exam rooms, a control room and pre-brief and debrief rooms.  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 hallway stations.  Faculty observe the live interactions at dedicated observation-evaluation stations or view remotely.  Faculty or students may be given access to review the recorded encounters.

The Medical Simulation Center offers students the chance to work in a realistic patient care environment.  The simulation center is a state-of-the-art facility of learning and teaching spaces, including rooms for pre-briefing, structured clinical practice, debriefing, skills assessment and task training sessions.  The simulation center's hospital patient rooms are equipped with a patient bedside 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 immediately after the encounter or reviewed later.  A central control room with 1-way windows looking into each patient room is used to run simulations and for live faculty observation.