Academic Affairs
Office of Education Development and Services : Human Simulation Center : Performance Assessment Center
Office of Education Development and Services
Director: Stephen Laird, D.O.
The Office of Education Development and Services coordinates the efforts of medical educators to implement the College's teaching and assessment programs. To accomplish this mission, this department:
- Supports first and second year clinical courses through one-on-one interaction between clinical faculty, students, and instructional coordinators.
- Develops and monitors the College teaching and assessment calendars.
- Implements campus-based faculty development.
- Implements student appraisal of teaching.
- Provides patient simulation experiences for learning and assessment.
- Supports web-based teaching and assessment.
- Coordinates activities in the Performance Assessment Center (PAC).
- Coordinates activities in the Human Simulation Center (HSC).
- Conducts educational research.
The Supervisor of Curriculum, Jennifer Tuttle, B.S., oversees the Instructional Coordinators, assists with the development of the quarterly course schedules, and facilitates the college academic calendar.
The Instructional Coordinators assist clinical instructors by developing multimedia presentations, designing web pages for clinical courses, and coordinating many tasks to execute the clinical curriculum on campus.
The Education Technology Coordinator, Eric Page, A.S., assists instructors in design/preparation of teaching materials and logistical support for web-based curriculum and assessment.
The Performance Assessment personnel provide coordination for skills in the Complete DOctor course, MSI-PE (Performance Evaluation), MSII-PE, and MSIII-PE Post-Core-Testing. Much of this work takes place at the College’s Performance Assessment Center.
- Director of Simulation Assessment – David Patterson, B.S.E., M.Ed.
- Supervisor of Standardized Patient Program - Tracy Nourse, B.S., R.N.
- Coordinator – Melissa Hollon, M.S.
The Human Simulation Center provides a teaching laboratory where the students can practice patient care with the use of Human Patient Simulators (computer-model-driven, full-sized mannequins).
- Medical Director of Clinical Human Patient Simulation - John Rickelman, D.O.
- Director of Simulation Assessment – David Patterson, B.S.E., M.Ed.
- Lab Technician – Elaine Louder, B.S.
The Curriculum Coordinator, Valerie Hamlin, B.S., supports the work of the Curriculum Committee and is involved in medical education research.
The Office of Education Development and Services Secretary is Lois Epperson.
