Plans are underway to build a new Clinical Learning and Simulation Skills Center (CLASS Center) that will be housed within Ross Hall on the GWU campus. Like the existing CLASS Center, the new center will be designed to replicate an actual healthcare setting for procedural training and clinical skills in a footprint expanded by 50 percent. The center will have an enhanced simulation component that will enable students and clinicians to perform advanced surgical simulation.

The new center will also include additional in- and out-patient rooms, centrally located control rooms, debriefing rooms, wet lab/dry lab space, high-acuity simulation rooms utilizing both standardized and simulated patients, as well as, administrative offices, larger break-out space, and ample storage. The new CLASS Center is scheduled to open its doors in Spring 2014.