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The Clinical Skills Lab offers our undergraduate students the opportunities to learn and practice hands-on clinical skills often not taught until medical school clerkship years. These skills include taking a patient history, basic physical exam, suturing, surgical knot-tying, and laparoscopic surgical skills (FLS skills training). We also provide a station for students to make 1cmx1cm paper origami cranes using surgical forceps and are introducing students to .

The aim of the lab is to strengthen our students’ clinical skills and manual dexterity, empower them beyond academic classroom opportunities, and increase health literacy across our campus by engaging the broader community through outreach events. The lab also includes a library featuring a range of MCAT/DAT study resources, references and textbooks, as well as fiction and nonfiction works written about clinical care and other relevant topics. By combining hands-on clinical skills practice and these additional resources, we hope to create a fun and safe learning environment for all our future clinicians and other interested students.

Spring 2025 Clinical Skills Lab Hours:
Monday - Thursday 18:00 – 20:00
Open to students from all concentrations and career paths

Train at your own pace or join our focused skills practice:
WEEK OF
2/3 Two-handed knot tying
2/10 History of Present Illness
2/17 One-handed knot tying
2/24 Review of systems
3/3 Simple interrupted stitch with instrument tie
3/10 Med, Surg, Fam, & Soc Hx, Meds & Allergies
3/17 Spring Break
3/24 Running subcuticular stitch with Aberdeen hitch
3/31 Vitals & Physical Exam, incl pulses/reflexes
4/7 Laparoscopy (peg transfer)
4/14 Radiology
4/21 Laparoscopy (circle cut, endoloop)
4/28 Laparoscopy (suture; ex-/intra-corporeal tie)

Complete your OSCE and surgical skills card during observed sessions with Dr. Mills:
WEDNESDAYS
2/19, 2/26, 3/12, 3/26, 4/16 and 4/30
12:00-13:00

Fastest laparoscopic peg transfer time for the academic year wins a prize!

The Clinical Skills Lab, with support from the ºÚÁÏÉçÇøMedical Society, will send origami cranes from the 1cmx1cm surgical and laparoscopic origami training stations, 1000 at a time, to the in remembrance of Sadako Sasaki and to express solidarity toward creating a more peaceful, healthy world.