Developed in 1996, the Standardized Performance Assessment Laboratory (SPAL) at Des Moines University gives medical students exceptional opportunities to experience clinical scenarios before they treat actual patients.
A multi-disciplinary clinical activity which serves to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.
Access to clinical training sites and preceptors is widely recognized as one of the rate-limiting steps to the profession's growth. Clinical preceptors open up their practices to students and educate them on the proper clinical evaluation and treatment of their patients.