5/7/2007 - UIC Receives $1 Million Gift for Clinical Performance Center
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1 million gift for the College of Medicine's Clinical Performance Center. The gift from Dr. Allan L. and Mary L. Graham will be used to update, remodel and equip the center, which will be named in their honor.
The Clinical Performance Center, one of the first of its kind, helps educators in the health professions improve clinical performance by using actors in simulated clinical situations for training, assessment and research.
"The Grahams' gift will allow the College of Medicine to expand the use of simulation at all levels of training, enriching the curriculum by providing students with opportunities for safe and supervised practice of essential skills," said Dr. Rachel Yudkowski, director of the center.
The Graham Clinical Performance Center will be a fully renovated simulation space where students can learn clinical skills with high-tech equipment and simulated patients. One new feature will be a SimMAN, an interactive lifelike human model that presents various disease symptoms for students to assess and treat.
The Grahams also contributed $500,000 to establish the Dr. Allan L. and Mary L. Graham Imaging Program in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, giving veterinary students access to state-of-the-art imaging equipment.
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