Mission and Vision

Mission 

The mission of the Clinical Learning Resource Center (CLRC) is to dedicate the full measure of our resources and abilities to advancing the knowledge of our students through interprofessional clinical simulation, and to bring the finest in health education, promotion, and care to patients in Texas, the nation, and globally.

Vision 

The vision of the CLRC is to be recognized as one of the premier institutions in the country for utilizing, improving, promoting and sharing simulation technologies in interprofessional health care education.

Definitions:

Simulation Technologies – Virtual reality software programs, partial task trainers, human patient simulators, simulated clinical environments, standardized patients and clinical simulation scenarios.

Utilizing – Integrating simulation technologies into curriculum to teach skills competencies, critical-thinking skills, team working at the intraprofessional and interprofessional levels, knowledge application, and interpersonal communication skills.

Improving – Conducting research to validate simulation technologies as effective methods to translate classroom knowledge into clinical skills competencies and integrating evidenced-based research results into health care professional education modalities.

Promoting – Collaborating to share new developments and techniques that utilize simulation technologies in better and innovative ways with the larger community of health care educators that employ simulation technologies.

Sharing – Engaging community entities by utilizing simulation technologies to benefit community health, educating community health care providers and encouraging community youth to select health care professions as a career choice.

Value statement 

All staff within the CLRC values the right of every student to learn and gain experience in a nonthreatening, standardized, nurturing and safe environment with the promise of maintaining the confidentiality related to that experience.