A clinical skills examination system was developed by the Center for Creative Instruction in collaboration with the Ruth M. Hillebrand Clinical Skills Center and the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Toledo to facilitate health care professionals' clinical encounters with standardized patients.
The Clinical Skills Center provides for the training and assessment of students, residents in graduate medical education training programs, and healthcare professionals. A clinical skills exam is based on planned clinical encounters in which health care professionals interview, examine, inform, or otherwise interact with a standardized patient. A standardized patient is trained to simulate medical conditions and illnesses. The clinical skills exam is a means of assessing clinical competencies based on testing through direct observation.
