Clinical Skills Education and Evaluation Center

The Clinical Skills Education and Evaluation Center (CSEEC) is a long-standing training and assessment center for healthcare professionals. Established in 1963, it aims to create a realistic simulation environment for practicing safe and effective clinical care with compassion.

The CSEEC has been a pioneer in several aspects of medical education and is a member of the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence (CCACC), which conducts an annual Clinical Performance Examination (CPX) shared among eight medical schools in California.

The CSEEC is located in a sate-of-the-art facility featuring 16 examination rooms equipped with tools like SPs, task trainers, and high-fidelity mannequins for teaching and assessing communication and clinical skills.

The CSEEC provides instruction and assessments in various areas, including history taking, physical examination, critical thinking, differential diagnoses, interprofessional collaboration, patient handover, and obtaining informed consent. Additionally, the center emphasizes the development of resilience and problem-solving skills in medical students.

For more information please contact the office:
cseec@usc.edu