Building Foundations Campaign: Clinical Academic Campus
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UBC Clinical Academic Campus

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Introduction

As the province’s second largest hospital, located in one of the country’s fastest growing and most diverse cities, Surrey Memorial Hospital provides a dynamic learning environment for the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine.

A formal affiliation between SMH and UBC began in 2008. These days, more than 70 students a month come to Surrey for training.

Massive expansion now underway at Surrey Memorial will soon provide new academic facilities and increase the number of undergraduates and residents as SMH officially becomes a Clinical Academic Campus.

Critical Care Tower

The BC government has made the single largest health care capital investment ever in British Columbia: a $512 million expansion and redevelopment at Surrey Memorial Hospital. The centrepiece is an eight-storey Critical Care Tower currently being built on-site.

When complete in 2014, the Critical Care Tower will establish the hospital as a Clinical Academic Campus by offering new academic facilities which will become the central location in Surrey for the UBC Faculty of Medicine program.

These academic facilities will be located on two levels of the eight-storey Critical Care Tower: a 120-seat UBC lecture theatre below ground, and an assortment of clinical skills rooms, video conference/seminar rooms, study stations, library, lounge, sleep rooms, administration offices, lockers and showers all located on the 3rd floor.

At any one time, as many as 86 students will be located at Surrey Memorial Hospital once construction has completed. This estimate is expected to increase even more over time as the program continues to develop.

Teaching and Learning

Much of the teaching and learning will take place in a cluster of multipurpose/clinical skills rooms each capable of accommodating up to eight people in chairs in a circle or as a general exam/consultation room large enough for a clinician, student and patient.

In addition, a range of activities will occur in video conference/seminar type rooms of varying sizes and the lecture theatre.

Students can be found within many hospital departments, including:

In particular, key teaching and learning activities include:

• Video conference activities including clinic instruction, lectures, demonstrations and presentations to other sites;
• Informal seminars, discussions and team meetings;
• Clinical skills:

• instructor and/or undergraduate student clinical skills exercises,
• video recording of selected sessions w/playback to review and analyze results,
• clinical skills drop-in and scheduled practice activities,
• volunteer/simulated patient support;

• Teaching/Conferences:

•  team meetings/conferences,
•  student meetings w/post-graduate/trainees,
•  presentations and teleconferencing,
•  patient interviews and history taking,
•  internet access and reference storage,
•  digital radiology image receipt and display,
•  clinical teaching w/clinicians and their patients, and
•  bedside teaching rounds (occur in existing SMH inpatient rooms and units);

• General examinations (e.g., individual, small group);
• OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) may occur periodically for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students.

Vision

When construction of the Critical Care Tower is complete, SMH will become an important part of the province’s capacity to train new doctors. Research shows that doctors tend to remain where they trained. Surrey and the rest of the province stand to benefit from the hospital’s status as a UBC-affiliated Clinical Academic Campus.
 

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