The center features 15 rooms equipped with high-fidelity manikin patients, examination and operating rooms, a moving ambulance simulation and a mock home health apartment and physical therapy center, all designed to give students realistic, hands-on experience before they enter actual clinical settings.
“We kill the plastic people so we don’t kill the real people,” Michael Yoder, coordinator of the Medical Campus’ EMS program, told the Herald.
The center will also house medical labs for the school’s nursing, respiratory care, physician assistant, histology and other programs, as well as a conference center, lecture room, student collaboration areas and a state-of-the-art physical therapy facility. The center will not only expand the college’s emergency medical services, nuclear medicine technology, nursing and physician assistant programs, but also allow for the introduction of new offerings in central sterile processing and surgical technology.
The five-floor, $56 million center will be available for student use beginning in the fall. Additionally, Medical Campus President Bryan Stewart, PhD, told the Herald that local hospitals including Baptist Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Miami Jewish Health Systems have shown interest in using the facility for staff training.
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