The Suttie Centre is a purpose-built training centre on the

Foresterhill Foresterhill is an area in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the site of the city's main hospitals (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital and the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital), as well as the medical school and ...

hospital campus in

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Facilities

The Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare is a partnership between the

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and

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. Designed by Edinburgh architects

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, the £20 million, five-storey, timber-clad building opened in September 2009. Part of the

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, the centre is used for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a wide range of healthcare staff use it for their continuing professional development. There is public access to displays on medical history. The centre contains the university

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department, a 220-seat lecture theatre, a simulated ward area and facilities for the ‘volunteer patients’ who support the teaching of clinical skills. Advanced technology includes an IT suite and a range of innovative simulators including the UK’s first ‘sim-baby’. A public cafe and museum area presents the history of medicine in the north-east of Scotland. A central atrium allows natural light into the heart of the building, which has a 6500 square metre floorspace in total. The centre is the fulfilment of the vision of Professor

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for the Foresterhill Health Campus, a joint site for healthcare. In 1900 he identified

as a suitable location.

References

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