Learning at the College of Medicine extends far beyond the classroom. Along with clinical rotations in hospitals, students get hands-on experience in our "living laboratory," which has some of the latest, most advanced facilities in health care for the purpose of teaching basic sciences and clinical skills.

• The Barbara E. Chick, MD '59, Clinical Education and Assessment Center (CEAC)
• The Independence Blue Cross Medical Simulation Center
• doc.com
• DxR
• Gross Anatomy Lab
• Health Sciences Library
• Interactive Computer-Based Tools
• MedEthEx
• Multidisciplinary Laboratories
• Multimedia Technology
• Virtual Microscope
• Wireless Internet Access

Simulation Center at West Reading

Launch Simulation Center

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The Barbara E. Chick, MD '59, Clinical Education and Assessment Center (CEAC) at Queen Lane

The center's 12 examination rooms look like physicians' offices but are linked to control and observation rooms. Students work with standardized patients to enhance their abilities in medical interviewing, physical examination and patient counseling.

Digital videos of the students taking histories, educating patients and performing physical examinations are captured and archived for review by faculty and students. More about our standardized patients can be found on our Standardized Patient Program website.

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The Independence Blue Cross Medical Simulation Center at Queen Lane

The simulation center's three patient rooms and one operating room are equipped with functioning beds, gas rails and sinks, and are configured to simulate patient care in the hospital setting. Instead of actual patients, each room contains a life-like computer controlled robotic manikin with palpable pulses and audible heart and lung sounds. The manikins breathe and blink, respond to injected drugs, can be intubated and defibrillated, and much more. The "patient" can even "speak." All functions are managed by a technician in a nearby control room. Encounters are recorded on digital video for students and faculty to review in post-encounter sessions. A task-training room also houses individual stations such as venipuncture, suturing or birthing simulation training.

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Doc.com and Professional Formation.org

These unique resources (which were developed by Drexel faculty, and are used by medical schools around the United States and worldwide) teach students to improve communication skills and develop as professionals through web-based video encounters between physicians and patients. They provide users with knowledge, skills review, and opportunities for reflection, and foster learning about complex communication and relationship challenges.

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DxR

This web-based patient simulation program allows students to develop clinical reasoning skills. A custom web-based interface provides students access to their assigned DxR cases and also provides individualized feedback on their performance.

Gross Anatomy Lab

The Gross Anatomy Lab is outfitted with high definition monitors and mini computers that have several useful software packages installed. These include 3D Visible Body Atlas, 3D Muscle Premium software and an online dissector that is published by Thieme and edited by the faculty. From the lab, students have access to other internet resources and can download the dissection instructions to the lab computer as well as to their personal laptops and iPads. A high definition video camera is in place at the instructor's station in the lab and the faculty can review dissection material and radiographs with the entire class using this technology.

Health Sciences Library

The Health Sciences Library portal provides faculty, students and staff access to vast amounts of electronic and printed resources. The complete resources of the library can be accessed wherever the students are studying or training over their four years. Linked in with the main Drexel University library system, the medical libraries at the Queen Lane, West Reading and Center City campuses offer quiet space for single and group study.

Interactive Computer-Based Tools

Students use faculty-developed tools that range from biochemical exercises to simulated patients presenting ethical dilemmas. Lectures, slides, lab manuals and other visual materials are available to students in searchable electronic formats.

MedEthEx

MedEthEx is an online series of exercises in medical ethics and communication skills that enable medical students and physicians to improve their knowledge of medical ethics and their effectiveness in communicating about ethical issues with patients and their families.

Multidisciplinary Laboratories

The laboratories have 42 tables with microscopes for teaching neuroanatomy, microbiology and pathology. Microscopes are equipped with a video camera so all students can look at a single slide under the microscope through monitors or on a projection screen.

Multimedia Technology

Students are able to augment the information and skills they learn from classes, print materials and clinical rotations. For example, computer simulations of the autonomic nervous system provide a graphic model for experimentation in the pharmacology laboratory.

Virtual Microscope

With the Virtual Microscope, students can access digitized slide collections in histology and pathology anywhere and anytime.

Wireless Internet Access

Students can access the Internet from anywhere on campus; we require all entering students to own an iPad and a computer (either a desktop or laptop).