Simulation-Based Education

Clinical Communication

Innovative, evidence-based training

Our program uses trained actors to simulate client scenarios that students may encounter once they begin their own practice. Based on real cases, veterinary students learn over a two-semester clinical communication course how to communicate effectively with clients who may disagree on treatment for their animals or who may worry how to pay for their veterinary care.

We also offer communication training to veterinary technicians and incoming interns and residents in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital that helps improve client understanding and strengthens the relationship between clients and their animal’s caregivers.

Join our team!

Apply to be a simulated client or practitioner coach and help us train tomorrow’s veterinarians. Contact us.

WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine has the nation’s first simulation program accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare with a focus on veterinary medicine.

Clinical Communication stories

Partnership uses simulation to help prepare athletic trainers

Case-based simulations provide athletic training students with real-world scenarios, such as heated exchanges with coaches or discussions with farmers who have injured themselves at work.

Yakima Valley College Veterinary Nursing Program

WSU designs and leads multi-day workshops on Yakima campus to train the coaches who lead student groups through a Veterinary Technology Program.

College of Veterinary Medicine helps to create athletic trainer simulation program

Clinical Communication Program provides expertise to help in the formation of a new program with training scenarios featuring increased depth and realism.

Questions about giving? Contact Lynne Haley or 509-335-5021.