Medical Education
Learning Facilities
In the first two years, students spend most of their time in the Life Science Building and Clinical Center complex located in the southeast corner of the beautiful and spacious campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing. This complex includes the Robert Echt Computer Laboratory and Learning Resource Center (Learning Center), the study and classroom areas, the lecture facilities, the MSU Science Library satellite, and the Clinical Skills teaching area. Lectures are held in two computer-equipped auditoriums (one equipped with distance learning technology), and a new "high technology" conference facility featuring an audience response system.
In fall 1999, the computer lab and the Learning Center relocated to a spacious and newly renovated first-floor location in the MSU Clinical Center, designed as the Echt Center, and contains an expanded 45-station student computer facility along with six multi-media carrels and traditional print resources.
CHM medical students make good use of the CHM Student Learning Center along with state-of-the-art small group classrooms which are available to CHM students 24 hours per day in the nearby Radiology Building.
The Clinical Skills Teaching Area (CSTA) is a 20-room module in the Clinical Center in which students practice interviewing and examination skills prior to working with actual patients in the nearby clinical facilities of the Greater Lansing area. The new CSTA is equipped to facilitate the multiple performance assessment events taken by all CHM students.
