The Centre’s facilities include:

• An immersive high-dependency simulation room
• Four large six-bedded ward spaces
• One large eight-bedded ward space
• 10 learning spaces for multipurpose teaching and group learnings
• Three independent learning rooms
• One community apartment (capacity >350 learners)

Find out more below. 

Simulation wards

The facility is modelled to an almost exact replication of a real ward environment where students can exercise highest and best quality care and treatment.

The Centre has four six-bedded, and one eight-bedded simulation wards, which can be used for multiple types of training including development of team building skills, physical assessment skills, managing crash/critical situations, and other diagnostic and interventional skills. It also includes: 

• Wall-mounted medical air and oxygen ports, to allow learners to practice skills related to airway and breathing management
• A call bell system and necessary electric sockets to plug in adjustable beds and simulators
• Video recording cameras in each ward space allow the learners to practice self-reflected skills
• Hand washing sinks and hand sanitiser facility with storerooms/cupboards

High Dependency Units

The Centre's high dependency unit is equipped with beds, a human patient simulator (APOLO) and a birthing simulator (Lucina). The two-bedded unit facilitate application of skills including:

• Caring for critical patients
• Care and treatment prioritisation
• Receiving and handing over

Undergraduate students of nursing, and life sciences practice interprofessional simulation-based education to acquire psychomotor, cognitive and behavioural skills required to achieve their set learning outcomes.

The area features a bed specifically designed for caring for patients. On the patient monitor there is a mounted LED screen to display supporting information.

The space is fitted with cutting-edge audio-visual technology, which makes it easier to record clinical scenarios. The control room also provides the ability to observe and control simulation sessions being run elsewhere. Sanitisers and hand washing sinks have also been fitted for convenience.

The Centre encompasses ten learning spaces in which two of them can be separated by flexible sound-proof dividers and can be opened up into two big classrooms/conference rooms for large group discussions/teaching. Each of the learning spaces has got different capacity ranging from 15-30 persons for learners with varying group sizes.

Each of them has got smart touch board screens to facilitate video presentation as well as classroom teaching notes. These rooms are suitable for usage in a variety of settings, including presentations, lectures, tabletop teachings, workshops, and debriefing sessions. In every one of the rooms, there is the possibility of rearranging the furniture to accommodate a variety of needs.

This one-bed flat features a bedroom, living room with attached kitchen and bathroom that are more typical of a middle-class or affluent home. Our students may perfect their home medical caregiving skills in this comfortable setting. The video recording camera inside the bedroom can record student’s performances which is later debriefed on. The storeroom inside the apartment allows the low fidelity manikins to be stored at easy reach.

The facility holds three small independent learning rooms where students can practise their clinical skills independently. The rooms are booked by the students through online KEATS portal and are being equipped with necessary partial task trainers and equipment to assist the students’ independent learning. Peer-to-peer teaching and learning can also take place. CCTV cameras are installed in the room for students’ safety and security. During times of assessments the centre holds the capacity to provide more such rooms by individual equipment request bookings.