Perspectives from Inside Logan’s Assessment Center

Designed to Improve Patient Health and Students’ Clinical Competencies

“The Assessment Center is truly an exceptional facility where Logan students obtain valuable clinical and patient care experience. These experiences will make them that much more advanced.”
—Martha Kaeser, DC, Director of Assessment Center

“We are bridging the gap between academia and the real world.”
—Michael Wittmer, DC, Chief of Clinical Care

“I believe that not only will the new Assessment Center benefit students and the doctor-patient relationship, but it will also  enhance Logan’s reputation and standards. Introducing real-world clinical experiences to students early in the educational process will help to graduate doctors with even greater experience.”
—Kevin E. Bradshaw, Tri-4

“As someone who is completing their clinical training, I feel the Assessment Center will provide an invaluable addition to the  education of future students. It will provide students with the opportunity to refine their history-taking and patient communication
skills, along with their physical-diagnostic and clinical reasoning abilities. By training and getting feedback on these essential clinical competencies, prior to entering a true outpatient setting, students will be exceptionally prepared to offer quality chiropractic care to the community. Logan’s commitment to constant progression in the field of chiropractic education is embodied by the construction and implementation of this Assessment Center.”
—Pat Battaglia, Tri-10

“The ability to work with real patients early in the educational and training process helps us to become confident in our abilities going into a National Board or real-world patient exam. The facilities promote learning and the opportunity to improve our clinical and communication skills by reviewing our practice footage and learning ways we can advance our patient care. Early access to clinical training also helps to keep students in the lower trimesters motivated as they can experience our educational objective: patient care.”
—Andrea Kurelowech, Tri-4

“I believe the Assessment Center will make a huge difference in the confidence level of Logan graduates. This new center will help educate not only the students, but the public about chiropractors’ ability to diagnose and treat issues and regions beyond the back.”
—Paul Gomez, Tri-1

“The Assessment Center allows for the interaction to be more authentic. As a student clinician, you can practice your patient-interaction style in a more realistic environment, putting both the intern and patient at ease. The design promotes greater interaction between the intern and the patient, as the clinician observation remains unseen by the patient. Without the clinician
present in the treatment room, as an intern I can focus my attention fully on the patient, tapping into the clinical and  communications style I achieved through my time training in class and in the student and outpatient clinics.
—Claudia Sacco, Tri-10