The Morchand Center for Clinical Competence

"Where there is love for mankind, there is love for the art of healing."
– Hippocrates

The above quote greets visitors as they enter The Morchand Center, and it is this philosophy that has served as the basis for its creation - caring and concern for all. Housed in the Annenberg Building within the Mount Sinai Medical Center complex, The Morchand Center is an attractively-designed suite of offices providing an ideal environment for learning. Seven examination rooms and a conference room, each equipped with closed-circuit color television cameras and stereo microphones, are linked to a separate observation theater so that the simulated doctor-patient interactions used to teach important communication skills can be monitored and digitally recorded.

The Observation Theater

As the student-patient interaction is taking place, the proceedings can be watched in the observation theater - the heart of The Morchand Center.

Custom-designed specifically to meet the needs of the Center, the theater's state-of-the-art audiovisual system serves as the eyes and ears of the program. Eight flat screen monitors, with the capability of displaying two different images simultaneously, are displayed for audience viewing. Viewers can individually adjust the controls on their theater seats to tune in to any of the examining rooms. In addition, the video technician can adjust the cameras in the examination rooms from the observation theater to observe the activity from different angles. The Morchand Center is a dazzling display of custom designed technology.