Facilities
The entire Health Sciences Center has been designed so that students can travel from the School of Dentistry to the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Health Sciences Library, the Health Sciences Dining Room, and any component of University Hospitals without having to go outside.
The Dental School building was designed to provide a modern teaching facility. The Multidiscipline Laboratories are designed and equipped so that the basic sciences (except for anatomy), technic, and preclinical laboratory work and study can be carried on by the student in his or her individual area.
The 50,000-square-foot dental clinic floor consists of two major clinical areas and five specialty clinics. The major clinics are made up of individual cubicles, fully equipped as private operatories. Each student clinician is assigned to one of the individual operatories for the academic year.
Drawing from a population of more than a million, the clinics provide a broad spectrum of care to the population, affording the student substantial clinical experience. The school cooperates with various organizations of the city in caring for their clients, an arrangement that provides additional clinical experience for students.
The Cleveland Health Sciences Library (CHSL) was formed in 1966 by an agreement between the Cleveland Medical Library Association (CMLA) and Western Reserve University. CHSL operates in two locations: the Allen Memorial Medical Library and the Health Center Library (HCL). The total collection currently numbers 351,004 volumes. More than 2,841 journals are received.
The Allen collection, strongly clinical, serves private and institutional members of the Cleveland Medical Library Association as well as faculty and students of Case Western Reserve University.
The Health Center Library collection of basic science materials is primarily for faculty and students of the schools of dentistry, medicine, and nursing and the Department of Biology. The audiovisual collection and services are provided at the Health Center Library.
The Dittrick Museum of Medical History, located on the third floor of the Allen Library, contains nearly 20,000 objects related to the history of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy, with special emphasis on Cleveland and the Western Reserve. The museum also contains a medical archives collection and a rare book room.
Reference staff in both libraries help and instruct library patrons in the use of the library and its bibliographic resources. Items not available on campus may be obtained through interlibrary loan. Other services provided are quick telephone reference, citation verification, and computerized or manual bibliographic searches. The library staff can provide on-line searching of more than 100 data bases.
The School of Dentistry has working relationships with many hospitals and health clinics in the Greater Cleveland community. Third- and fourth-year students have the opportunity to function as dentists and observe hospital routine and operating room technic in these hospitals. Many members of the faculty hold staff appointments in these extramural health facilities.
University Hospitals is a complex of 6 specialty hospitals with 52 clinics, 2 of which are the oral surgery clinic and the pediatric dental clinic.
MetroHealth Systems is the teaching hospital for the western portion of Greater Cleveland. Among its services for the acutely ill, the hospital contains a dental department.
The Veterans Administration Hospital is a modern 780-bed hospital in the University Circle area. The hospital provides dental services for both outpatient and inpatient veterans.
The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland, at 12201 Euclid Avenue, is a nonprofit community service organization that presently offers medical, dental, podiatric, legal, family planning, and psychological counseling programs for adults and children; provides a patient advocacy program and speakers for community education and for training at other health agencies; and operates a hotline seven evenings a week.
Dental students may volunteer their services to any of the programs at the clinic. However, most participate in delivering dental care to the indigent; this also increases students' skills in emergency and comprehensive patient care.
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