» Clinical Education & Outreach Center
Developed as part of Marshall University's Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health, the $23.5 million, 80,000 square foot, four-story Clinical Education & Outreach Center, known as the Clinical Center, is located at the former Fairfield Stadium site and houses
major new medical student teaching facilities and clinical education
patient care clinics that have enabled the School of Medicine to increase the size of its medical school class, making it possible for Marshall to increase the number of well-trained doctors practicing in southern West Virginia and surrounding areas.
The Clinical Center is made possible through Senator Byrd’s efforts in securing two separate federal grants through the US Department of Health & Human Services.
Construction - 5/4/2007
The ground floor of the new facility contains state-of the-art medical education teaching resources, including a 125 seat tiered classroom, several smaller classrooms and student study and lounge areas. Most significantly, a Clinical Skills Center is included where medical students and residents can develop and hone their patient care skills using both computer-based models and live simulated patients, before moving into the "live" patient care settings contained on the upper floors. Three floors of patient care and clinical education space above provide expanded patient care capacity for up to 75,000 patient visits per year. Services include both General Internal Medicine and the medical specialties of Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary Medicine and Rheumatology. The Hanshaw Geriatric Center and Marshall's Diabetes Center have also relocated to this new facility. The top floor houses the School’s Cardiology faculty to focus on a chronic disease that more frequently affects southern West Virginia and its aging population.
In addition to expanding the School of Medicine’s educational and patient care capacity the new Center employs in excess of 50 physicians and 150 staff and generates more the $10 million in direct economic activity annually.