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Clinical Skills Center

Welcome to The Ohio State University's Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center!

The Center’s mission is to promote and provide high quality clinical education and reliable assessment of skills and procedures, with the ultimate intent being to advance patient care. The Center allows Ohio State to expand existing programs, launch new instructional techniques, and employ new outcomes assessments with the goal of training competent, compassionate professionals while fostering educational research. 

In the News 

  • Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Kicks Off Our Clinical Skills Training and Simulation Center
    February 24, 2012
    U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was able to catch a glimpse of the future of medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. The expanded space incorporates advanced technology in space designed to simulate actual hospital settings used to educate  trainees in basic clinical skills, as well as advanced surgical, ultrasound and medical scenarios. 
  • Simulation centers let doctors-to-be hone their skills
    The Columbus Dispatch Friday February 24, 2012
    “The latest edition to Columbus’ virtual medical world is a $13 million simulation center at the university’s Wexner Medical Center. Ohio State already used simulation for training, but this is a huge endeavor that in places looks like a real hospital and offers students more opportunities to hone their skills.”
  • Kasich, Doctors Tout Expansion of Ohio’s Broadband Research Network
    February 27, 2012
    Expanding the power of Ohio’s broadband research network ten-fold will enhance patient care, education and innovation for the state’s medical industry and institutions, according to Gov. John Kasich and several Ohio medical researchers. “This will take us to a new level in terms of being able to take care of our patients routinely and remotely,” said Dr. Ali Rezai of Ohio State University’s Department of Neurological Surgery.
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