Opening of HYMS education centre at Hull Royal Infirmary
Posted on 1 November 2006
The Hull York Medical School (HYMS) Education Centre provides teaching, study and training facilities for medical students, as well as providing support services for HYMS Tutors in hospital, primary care and mental health locations in Hull and East Yorkshire. The Centre is the focus of HYMS administration and student support services for medical students on placement in the area.The shared and integrated facility contains study rooms, teaching consultation suites, a clinical skills laboratory, IT suite, administration offices, common room and changing facilities.
The Dean of Hull York Medical School, Professor Bill Gillespie, will perform the opening ceremony on Wednesday 8 November at 11am. He said: "The Centre is the visible outcome of the partnership working across local NHS organisations to promote and support HYMS teaching and focus on the integration of primary, community and acute care.
"It will benefit undergraduate and postgraduate training across the professions and hopefully encourage recruitment and retention of doctors across the area. This is the first dedicated clinical skills laboratory to be built in the area, offering students the chance to practice their skills in a safe environment under the supervision of skilled facilitators."
This Centre will benefit undergraduate and postgraduate training across the professions and hopefully encourage recruitment and retention of doctors across the area
Professor Bill Gillespie
Stephen Greep, Chief Executive, for Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "HYMS has been extremely successful and beneficial to the Trust since its opening in 2003. It is enabling us to attract a very high calibre of doctor to the Trust, which is great news for patients who are receiving better care than ever before. The extension to this building will help us to build on the successful partnership we already have with HYMS, and offer an improved standard of facilities for the students."
Similar facilities have been built or are in the process of being constructed in all the major hospitals in the Hull York Medical School region, complementing the considerable investment in training facilities in primary care and mental health. Further HYMS teaching facilities will be incorporated in the Medical Education and Research Building due to be completed on the Castle Hill Hospital site in 2007.
Notes to editors:
- HYMS is a joint venture between the Universities of York and Hull and the NHS. It admitted its first medical students in 2003 and is consolidating its research base with strong collaborative links in and between the two universities and clinicians in the region.
- Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust manages three main hospitals: Castle Hill Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary and The Princess Royal Hospital. The Trust provides a full range of acute services to almost 600,000 people in the Hull and East Yorkshire region. It also provides a number of sub-regional specialties serving a wider population of 1.2 million people in North Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire. The Trust employs over 7,000 people and has an annual budget of £345m. A £300m capital development programme at the Trust will see the opening of a £65m cancer centre and £70m cardiac and surgical facility at Castle Hill Hospital in 2007.