Update

The Suttie Centre has already made it's mark as a new model for medical teaching and learning. Medical professionals are able to continue their developement in an environment where students interact with NHS staff. The Centre provides state-of-the-art equipment, practice suites and offers "real life" experience through working with volunteers from the community.

The Suttie Centre is a popular, thriving building, averaging 1000 visitors a day. As well as organised teaching, training, conferences and events there are spaces for more ad-hoc activities and the cafe is a popular venue for staff, students, patients and visitors to the Foresterhill site. Feedback on the environment has been excellent from all those who utilise the facility.

The Suttie Centre was built principally for the teaching of Undergraduate medicine and the ongoing training of NHS Grampian staff - from consultants to mechanical engineers - but flexibility of space and teaching have allowed this to continually extend. Students from other science and healthcare disciplines regularly attend, we have started Physicians Assistant training and the diversity of NHS teaching grows with every passing day.

In September 2011 the centre held it's most prestigious event to date when it hosted the Intercollegiate exam in general surgery which invloved more than 100 volunteer patinets, many of whom regularly assist in training sessions both for the students and NHS staff. Other courses and exams such as MRCP, MRCS, IMPACT and national Dental Nurse exams have been hosted in the facility.

The centre also provided a venue for numerous professional conferences - including those of the Royal College Physicians Edinburgh (RCPE), British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and the Travelling Surgical Society - where the centre's state of the art technological facilities enabled live theatre links.

We regularly undertake lots of public engagement events such as the Aberdeen Doors Open Day, the Word Festival and CafeMed, which are public science lectures. In September 2012 the centre will be the main venue for the British Science Association Festival. The centre also hosts events specifically aimed at school pupils to encourage an interst in medicine, such as So You Want to be a Doctor, Medical Masterclasses and Techfest workshops.

The centre also continues to actively engage with charities such as Chest, Heart & Stroke, Friends of Anchor, UCAN, Marie Curie and the Pain Association providing a venue for training, focus groups and fundraising.

University student societies use the centre for a wide range of events and activities including the Wilderness Society's scenario evening with vehicle extraction and casualty recovery, the Christian Union's debate on Physician Assisted Suicide and the annual student donor drive for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Register.

The building also hosts Graduation reception, class reunions and alumni events.

23 Feb 2012

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