Rethinking Clinical Design: Earn LU Credits Through Continuing Education

August 6, 2025

Midmark can be a valuable resource for architects and designers who work in the ambulatory healthcare space. For instance, our in-house clinical design consultation experts can work directly with them at the start of a project to help ensure facility design and room configurations align with equipment and furniture needs, and desired clinical workflows are achieved. They can also make sure the project is compliant with relevant accessibility standards and regulations.

Engaging our experts early in the process provides a valuable opportunity to explore new options and technologies that are available. It can also help eliminate costly instances where necessary changes or different equipment or furniture has to be shoehorned into a project after the design or construction has been completed.

Even when architects and designers are not actively working on a clinical project, our clinical design and expertise can still provide value. We can help them understand the forces driving changes in outpatient care and how healthcare systems are looking to exam room design and processes to alleviate pressure from macro-level trends.

Learn more and earn LU credits

In an effort to provide the clinical design information architects and designers need to enhance their capabilities and understanding of the clinical space, our team has worked with The American Institute of Architects (AIA) to offer continuing education training that provides Learning Units (LU).

The course, “Rethinking the Exam Room: Exam Room Design Insights from a Clinical Perspective,” is a course delivered by Midmark clinical design consultation experts that offers 1.0 Health Safety and Welfare (HSW) LU for a one-hour presentation. It provides healthcare architects and designers who are AIA members a high-level view of how proper exam room design can improve clinical workflow efficiency at the point of care. Attendees will also learn how Midmark can partner with and help architects and designers.

The course focuses on eight main topics:

1. What effect does changing age demographics have on the healthcare environment?

2. Understanding the safety risk of the traditional exam room.

3. Exploring ADA accessibility in the exam room.

4. Understanding the workflow inefficiencies of the traditional exam room.

5. Ergonomics in the exam room.

6. Infection prevention in the exam room.

7. What tools are available to aid in exam room design?

8. Exploring design considerations and equipment specifications to address these needs.

After completing the course, architects and designers should be able to:

1. Identify and describe the needs of at-risk patient demographics who receive care in exam rooms.

2. Identify safety risks associated with patient falls and caregiver injuries in the exam room and prioritize them based on severity.

3. Analyze the efficiency of patient and provider movement patterns and the workflow process during examinations.

4. Identify and anticipate ergonomic and infection control challenges that patients and providers experience in the exam room.

5. Prepare, plan and propose exam room designs that not only meet space requirements but also create a safe, dignified and efficient healing environment for both patients and caregivers.

Interested architects and designers can register on the AIA site to take the course, or visit midmark.com for more information.