Clinical Training Center
Our Clinical Training Center is a state-of-the-art student training facility, providing access to the latest technology to best prepare students for clinical practice in any location and setting. It is used for pre-clinic training, special labs, and testing of and research on emerging equipment.
NECO Clinical Training Center Highlights
- Two full teaching labs for optimal instruction
- 20 exam lanes for student training and practice
- Fully equipped lanes with phoropters, slit lamps, visual acuity systems, trial lenses, trial frames, and BIO lenses
- Digital and traditional phoropters to experience both systems for refraction
- Four special testing environment lanes for students to learn on new and soon-to-market equipment
- Slit lamps with imaging systems to provide instant feedback to faculty
The Clinical Training Center is a place where we reinvent traditional clinical training and teaching techniques. We realize that technology is constantly changing, so we’ve created spaces for special environments to test new technology as it emerges, and to assess how technology interacts with the electronic medical record.
The CTC incorporates technology to support teaching, including webcams to capture student work for discussion as well as review. Faculty can provide feedback in real-time as well as reviewing recordings later for further reflection and discussion.
