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The third floor of the Medical Education Building
will be used to facilitate research collaboration
and for simulation labs for nursing and medical
students. The University will tender the project
for completion of the space, which has been
unused while the first two floors were opened to
the Windsor program of the Schulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry in 2008.
The project calls for research collaboration space that
includes a 60-seat lecture hall, a 24-seat seminar room, and
six group learning suites.
Nursing facilities will include simulation and health
assessment labs with viewing rooms, primary care and
infection control isolation rooms, offices and a simulated
patient area.
Completing the features are a simulation lab with a
viewing room for medical students and a common area
with a student lounge and informal meeting spaces.
The project, designed by DiMaio Design and Diamond
+ Schmitt, is slated to cost $4.2 million, funded by the
provincial government in May 2009.
“This expanded clinical lab space will ensure a superior
learning experience for our students,” says Dean of Nursing
Linda Patrick. “In addition, it will provide us with enriched
opportunities for interprofessional collaboration between
students in nursing and medicine, as well as students from
related disciplines preparing for careers in health.
“We are equally excited to be creating advanced classroom
space equipped with the latest technology that will give us
the ability to deliver graduate courses in oncology and
palliative care, in partnership with the de Souza Institute
and the Hospice of Windsor, to nurses throughout Ontario
using distance eLearning course delivery methods.”
MEDICAL EDUCATION BUILDING
EXPANDS PROGRAM TO THIRD FLOOR
