The Rector Clinical Skills and Simulation Center has the opportunity and ability to train learners in a longitudinal, graduated, and incremental way by starting in the first year of medical school and continuing through fellowship and faculty development training. This combined with a longitudinal assessment of skills including Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE’s) and Objective Structured Assessment Technical Skills (OSATS) allows faculty to follow learners through their learning arc and rapidly recognize deficits that may need remediation or reinforcement. Finally, the Center has a cadre of enthusiastic expert teachers to create, implement and teach these programs.
Rector Clinical Skills & Simulation Center
Ancillary Simulation Projects
Longitudinal Graduated Clinical Skills Curriculum
Measey High-Fidelity Surgical Simulation Suite
This suite includes high fidelity simulators including Endoscopic, Bronchoscopic (with EBUS), and Laparoscopic simulators. In addition, we have two Da Vinci Robotic simulators, each of these useful to provide skills attainment and deliberate practice of sophisticated invasive and surgical skills in the simulation setting. The center faculty has developed and validated multiple teaching modules to allow learners to use standardized checklists to perform skills attainment and deliberate practice on the high-fidelity simulators. Skills attainment for senior level UME learners, GME learners as well as practicing physicians and surgeons to engage with procedures to include Bronchoscopic, Colonoscopic, Urologic and Laparoscopic procedures.
Advanced Physical Exam Course
This innovative course uses standardized validated checklists and algorithms to guide the learner on a step-by-step performance and context specific interpretation of physical examination in the adult patient. Expert faculty will provide formative feedback in the performance and interpretation of advanced physical exam techniques in patients.
The Advanced Physical Exam course includes engaging lectures and highlights the importance of physical exam in providing high quality healthcare in a cost effective manner.
Remote Center Clinical Skills
The Remote Clinical Skills Center is in the Curtis building and offers 24-hour access for deliberate practice of procedural skills to senior level UME & GME learners. These procedures include Flexible Laparoscopic Skills (FLS)surgical boxes, as well as needle guided ultrasound blocks, IJ task trainers, IV arms, intubation heads, glide and video intubation equipment, Pediatric task trainers, lumbar puncture task trainers, nasal gastric trainers, as well as task trainers for Foley catheterization.
Igloo Immersive Space
The Rector Center has added virtual reality to our skills teaching and assessment portfolio. This consists of a 27 ft.in diameter, open to one side, VR-igloo located on the 6th floor of the Center this will provide a simulated immersion experience for the learner. The Center’s faculty is currently developing modules involving disaster preparedness, bioterrorism and invasive skills training.
Mobile Simulation Skills Van
The Rector Center with funds provided by the Measey foundation, developed a van outfitted to be a remote clinical skills training unit for clinical skills and procedural teaching and task trainer module transport in the field. Developed during the Covid 19 pandemic, the program is ongoing and continues to support teaching invasive basic skills: IV, NG, OT intubation, LP, and Foley Catheter insertion to UME learners.
Point of Care Ultrasound Skills Suite
This suite, dedicated to teaching ultrasound skills and practice. uses a standardized checklist to guide teacher and learner on the step-by-step protocols of point of care diagnostic and procedural POCUS exams. Ultrasound machines, handheld devices and ultrasound simulators complement skills attainment for senior level UME & GME learners and other healthcare providers. Ultrasound needle guided procedures are taught using simulation task trainers for IV US placement, IJ cannulation, Paracentesis, and Thoracentesis. Diagnostic POCUS ultrasound procedures taught include eFAST, lung, cardiac, gallbladder, biliary tree and liver, musculoskeletal, among others.