Tour of New Kansas University Health Education Building

The Kansas University Endowment Association invited Dwayne to join a group of donors to tour the new Kansas University Health Education Building.  The five story, $82 million project provides 170,000 square feet of space for supporting the education of medical, nursing and allied health students.  The extensive collection of simulation mannequins and video equipment allows students to engage in hands on learning with instant feedback via the video recording, peer comment and faculty mentoring.  Students working as multi-disciplinary teams will learn together in settings which carefully replicate clinical and hospital facilities.  Although the building contains auditoriums capable of seating an entire class of medical students, there are numerous rooms to facilitate small group learning.  Major curriculum revisions were made to foster learning in small groups and inter-disciplinary teams.  This change in approach to teaching our future health care-givers would not have been possible without the new Health Education Building.  It was a wise investment for the benefit of the people of Kansas.  It is a splendid, modern addition to the KU Medical Center Campus.

Kansas University Health Education Building