8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 22, 1999

Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann Clinical Skills Lab and an OSCE Exam with Standardized Patients; Designing and Equipping a Clinical Skills Lab.

Registrants ($150); non-registrants ( $175).

Pre-registration Required. Transportation and box lunch to eat on the bus are included. Bus departs Embassy Suites at 8:30 a.m. Bus returns to Embassy Suites and Thomas Jefferson University between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m in time for afternoon workshops, if desired.

Instructors:Dennis H. Novack, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Medical Education, Diane G. Cohen, Director, Standardized Patient Program, MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA and Leon Moore, PhD, Center for Informatics in Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD.

Who Should Attend: Those interested in seeing a clinical skills lab and talking with those designing, using and evaluating students in such facilities. Limit 20 people.

Synopsis: At one of the finest clinical skills labs you can observe the teaching of interviewing and examining skills. The examining rooms and multi-session taping/viewing area will be used as participants either interview or evaluate two trained Standardized Patients (SPs) with an ethical dilemma or medical problem. Participants can see how the SPs immediately evaluate the students on the computers in each examining room. SPSS is used in generating reports through a web interface. Instructors review the reports from the 10 OSCE stations. Each student reviews their performance with the instructor using the report for feedback. The Center will also demonstrate the latest version of Harvey. The Uniformed Services University is constructing a new National Capital Area Simulation and Readiness Center (SIMCEN) for training military clinicians in the Washington DC area. The SIMCEN features a 12 station clinical simulation area, a simulation operating room area, a virtual reality room, and a NBME Medical School Center for computer-based testing of Step 1 and Step 2 exams. Leon Moore will describe the new lab under construction at USUHS in Bethesda, Maryland. He will include design features, plans, pictures and a list of equipment selected.