Faculty of the CAC
John Hurley, M.D.
Clinical Director,CAC jah09477@creighton.edu
The CAC is led by a Clinical Director (John Hurley, MD) who oversees the clinical cases and provides guidance for the standardized patient program in the medical curriculum.
Core Faculty
A core faculty help design cases and assess clinical skills.
- Eugene Barone MD, Dept of Family Medicine
- Robert Coleman, PhD, Dept of Psychiatry
- Bruce Houghton MD, Dept of Medicine
- John Hurley MD, Dept of Medicine
- PJ Malin MD, Dept of Psychiatry
- Henry Sakowski MD, Dept of Medicine
- M. Shashidharan, MD, Dept of Surgery
Goals and Objectives
The Clinical Assessment Center (CAC) is a state-of-the-art facility located in Creighton University Medical Center. The physical setting can be configured to mimic a typical ambulatory care or inpatient setting. Students and residents interact with simulated patients in encounters that can be remotely recorded and assessed. The goal of the Clinical Assessment Center is to provide a clinical setting for teaching, assessing and testing clinical skills of medical students and residents. The mission of the CAC has grown to include other Creighton University health science students.
Objectives:
- maintain and train a cadre of Standardized Patients appropriate for educational, assessment and testing activities for the medical students and residents;
- teach and assess clinical skills for medical students by providing opportunities for practicing medical interviews, conducting practice physical exams, providing practice/teaching sessions for the more sensitive physical exams such as breast and pelvic exams, male GU exam, and pre-natal ultrasounds;
- assess students' clinical skills by working with medical faculty to plan, develop, implement and evaluate Objective Structured Clinical Exams for students in the specialty rotations;
- assess students' pre- graduation clinical skills by working with medical faculty to plan, develop, implement and evaluate the Objective Structured Clinical Exam as a minimal competency exam for students at the end of their junior year;
- identify medical students who are not at the expected level of performance;
- assist in referral and remediation of students not at the expected level of performance;
- maintain a library of models to be used for students' clinical training.
Location:
The CAC is located in Suite 5600 in Creighton Medical Center. Take the elevators back by the cafeteria, go to 5th floor, and follow the signs to the CAC.
