Education
Growing future health leaders
In the UNSW Health Translation Hub, new future focussed education spaces will inspire students with a hands-on experience.
UNSW offers health education across disciplines. Students can study medicine, global health, public health, data science, allied health, management and leadership, infectious disease, optometry and vision science, pharmacy, psychiatry and mental health amongst other areas. They can also study subjects within engineering, business, science, law and justice and art that touch various aspects of health education.
On floors 1 and 2 of the UNSW HTH, new education spaces will provide an interprofessional learning environment, enabling students to effectively engage with a broad range of communities in both simulated and real-life scenarios.
Spaces will support direct clinical activity or a simulated scenario, to research, educate or innovate future practice.
Spaces
Education spaces
Education spaces
Seven large, flexible teaching spaces will support classroom learning and tutorials across the two floors. A bespoke teaching gym will support UNSW’s growing allied health program and be used by physiotherapy, exercise science and exercise physiology programs. It will also be home to UNSW’s Lifestyle Clinic which is community facing and provides programs for the prevention and management of chronic disease, injury and disability. It’s staffed by accredited exercise physiologists.
UNSW Health Clinics, in disciplines like optometry and psychology, will support students learning and practicing with real patients and volunteers.
On level 5, a preparation kitchen will support students studying dietetics.
UNSW's Schools of Clinical Medicine and Population Health will be based in the HTH to better integrate emergent research and changing clinical practice with the vital healthcare workforce education they support.
Student led spaces
Student led spaces
Students can enjoy different spaces to reflect, study and socialise. Breakout student spaces offer flexible seating and spaces to work. Different breakout areas and smaller bookable meeting rooms will enable students to work in small groups on projects. Quieter zone areas will help students who are studying and working independently.
They’ll have access to lockers to store personal items and valuables.
In a student common room, students will have access to a kitchenette, the famous Medicine ping-pong table and booths to socialise and relax.
Simulated clinical environments
Simulated clinical environments
Simulated scenarios provide a high-fidelity replica of varying medicine and health environments to support more complex educational activities for students and to support accompanying research.
Simulation pharmacy
Simulation pharmacy
A simulation pharmacy will create a practice dispensing environment for students to practice communication and other skills.
This space uses a virtual dispensary and counter to create a small practice pharmacy environment suitable for one student at a time to interact with a patient. The sessions can be streamed to a larger briefing room where the remainder of the class can observe the interactions.
Be at the forefront of the evolving pharmacy sector with a comprehensive education in the pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy practice and management.