Grosvenor Hall

Grosvenor Hall

This is the main administrative and academic building of the medical school, housing the offices of the dean, admissions, student affairs, academic affairs, and finance and administration. Major teaching labs, including the Gross Anatomy Lab, the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Lab, Medical Imaging Lab, and the Heritage Clinical Training and Assessment Center, are also stationed in Grosvenor Hall. The college’s Heritage Community Clinic, Global Health Programs, and the CORE Research Office are also located here as well as numerous classrooms, small meeting rooms, and offices for faculty and staff.

Medical Imaging Lab

Once known as the Histology Lab, this facility on Grosvenor Hall's first floor became a multipurpose medical education facility thanks to summer 2011 renovations.

In addition to providing a beautiful new venue for microscope-based study of microanatomy, the new network connections, camera-mounted instructor's microscope and numerous video screens provide a state-of-the-art virtual microscopy experience.

The innovative design of the room has greatly expanded its potential. Instructors envision Ground Rounds experiences for medical students and future graduate medical education training. The positioning of sinks and counter spaces along the side walls uncluttered the middle of the room. A ceiling-mounted camera provides a means for projecting intimate views of specimens or procedures to the entire class, and lab benches are angled toward the presenter's dais.

Gross Anatomy Labs

First-year students begin anatomy lab in their first month of medical school during the Osteopathic Clinical Anatomy Orientation. Grosvenor Hall’s main anatomy lab is 3,940 square feet and features 10, 50-inch plasma screens positioned so students at any station can easily see at least one. The lab is equipped with five cameras placed strategically so faculty and staff can zoom in—at high magnification—on the examination table at any station and broadcast it to the screens. Such educational technologies mean students need not wait or crowd around one cadaver while instructors demonstrate skills and display anatomical structures.

The room also has two video projectors, a sound system and computer system able to record class sessions. Video technology connects our Gross Anatomy Lab with our Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Lab, integrating musculoskeletal anatomy instruction and providing a strong foundation for problem-solving in clinical settings.

A second, smaller anatomy lab also includes technological perks such as plasma televisions and the ability to record sessions. For both labs, plastinated specimens created at the Heritage College are used in instruction. Students typically work four per cadaver.

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Lab

Students meet here once a week in two-hour blocks, resulting in 200 hours of OMM instruction during the first two years of their studies here. OMM Fellows, students who are selected to stay for an additional year of instruction, assist faculty members in teaching.

Our students receive ample one-on-one instruction in this lab, and regular technological upgrades have been made to the space. The lab is lined with three plasma and six projector screens, which are used to display PowerPoint slides or close-up views of OMM techniques. A technician working in a nearby control booth runs four cameras that feed to the screens and provide students with on-screen information as needed. Video technology also connects our OMM Lab with the Gross Anatomy Lab, letting students make associations between what they see in living patients and anatomical structures in the Gross Anatomy Lab.

Heritage Clinical Training and Assessment Center

One of the hallmarks of the educational experience at the Heritage College is early clinical contact, and the Heritage Clinical Training and Assessment Center is one place where students receive some of their first experiences with patients. The facility, which was renamed and expanded in 2011 with funding from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, features state-of-the-art medical technology.

An emergency/surgical laboratory suite is complete with a scrub station, six advanced life support cardiac monitors, an anesthesia machine, two central line intravenous pumps, five intravenous pumps and six crash carts. The center’s seven new mannequins can be programmed to simulate various health conditions in order for medical students to practice various medical techniques. Electronic medical records have also been implemented as a teaching tool for students, further preparing them for clinical practice.

In the patient examination room, medical students work with standardized patients―community members who are trained to simulate medical and psychosocial situations in a believable, realistic manner. Here students learn basic clinical skills, begin to master complex technical procedures, and develop communication and relationship-building skills early in their medical education process. As the students work, faculty can oversee their progress and provide feedback from a nearby control room.

Heritage Community Clinic

Renamed and relocated to a new, expanded space in 2011—thanks to a gift from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations —this clinic includes a working physician’s office, complete with a waiting room, patient registration and examination rooms.

The services of the Heritage Community Clinic, which provides free and low-cost medical care to underserved or underinsured populations in southeastern Ohio, are developed in response to community needs. They have included health screenings, navigator programs for families, childhood immunizations, bus driver physicals, and health education for community members and regional health care providers. These efforts also include our specially equipped mobile health clinics that travel our region providing a health care setting in rural communities that have none.

The Heritage Community Clinic, which is staffed by the Heritage College faculty physicians who volunteer their services, is one of many venues where first-year medical students have their first patient experiences.

Learning Resources Center

This curriculum-based facility houses copies of all required text books and a browsing collection of journals. The center also contains a computer lab, many spaces for studying including a quiet reading room, and small group meeting rooms.