page_title: Suttie Centre
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Suttie Centre / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare, Foresterhill, Aberdeen. The building, a joint project between the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian, opened in 2009.
context_page_description: The Suttie Centre is a purpose-built training centre on the Foresterhill hospital campus in Aberdeen.
context_section_description: The Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian. Designed by Edinburgh architects Bennetts Associates, the £20 million, five-storey, timber-clad building opened in September 2009. Part of the University of Aberdeen, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, the centre is used for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a wide range of healthcare staff use it for their continuing professional development. There is public access to displays on medical history.
  The centre contains the university Anatomy department, a 220-seat lecture theatre, a simulated ward area and facilities for the ‘volunteer patients’ who support the teaching of clinical skills. Advanced technology includes an IT suite and a range of innovative simulators including the UK’s first ‘sim-baby’. A public cafe and museum area presents the history of medicine in the north-east of Scotland.
  A central atrium allows natural light into the heart of the building, which has a 6500 square metre floorspace.
  The centre is the fulfilment of the vision of Professor Matthew Hay for the Foresterhill Health Campus, a joint site for healthcare. In 1900 he identified Foresterhill as a suitable location.
caption: Suttie Centre in 2010
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