Akron may land medical training center

"Preliminary talks among Northeast Ohio's public medical college, the University of Akron and Akron's three hospital systems could bring a multi-million-dollar medical training center to the city." (Source: "Medical training center possible for Akron," Akron Beacon Journal, March 10, 2008.) "Within the next two years, the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy wants to open a clinical skills training center in Akron's biomedical corridor, near Akron General Medical Center and Akron City and Akron Children's hospitals." The proposed 10,000-square-foot clinical skills center would likely would cost between $3 million and $4.5 million to construct and equip and be similar to the William G. Wasson M.D. Center for Clinical Skills Training, Assessment and Scholarship on NEOUCOM's Rootstown campus. The article quotes Clint W. Snyder, NEOUCOM associate dean for health professions education, as saying "That high-tech center is frequently used by medical and pharmacy students, residents, nursing students and others to practice providing medical care with robotic patients and actors."