The CEC is a place where students can implement an emphasis on the osteopathic, hands-on approach to working with patients.
The center offers a variety of features including a communication lab utilizing standardized patients, advanced cardiac life support, suture labs, sterile technique, gowning and gloving, casting labs, a respiratory lab and pharmacology lab.
Labs involving full body simulators are also available, as well as practice and assessment of medical documentation. Medical, nursing and educational staff members are available to provide individual and group assistance.
The CEC has an extensive library of cases to meet the needs of many types of clinical instruction. Programs can also be created to center on the objectives of patient care for disciplines across the medical team.
In addition to a dedicated standardized patient area, the CEC has: