Botterell Hall, at the corner of Stuart and Barrie Streets, is the major facility building. Presently it houses the Bracken Library, which is the principal Health Sciences library facility, some student facilities, major classrooms and the Departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, a National Cancer Institute Research Group of the Department of Pathology, and animal facilities, together with some related clinical research space.
The administrative offices of Undergraduate Medical Education are located at 80 Barrie Street.The Department of Pathology has its major facility in the Richardson Laboratory which is directly connected to the Kingston General Hospital.
Abramsky Hall, erected in 1958, houses the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.
Bracken Health Sciences Library
Bracken Library occupies two floors of Botterell Hall. It offers
complete library services and its staff are committed to excellent user
service. The library is open 90 hours per week.
Bracken Health
Sciences Library is well-known for its teaching activities, which
include a complete curriculum-integrated information literacy program
for medical students. The courses in this program span all four years
of the medical curriculum, and are taught by Bracken Librarians.
Bracken Health Sciences Library has mounted networked access to a
suite of health sciences databases, including Medline and
Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews. Other user services include highly
subsidized document delivery for material not available in Kingston,
and traditional and electronic reference services. In addition to print
journals and books, the library offers around the clock electronic
access to a large array of full-text journals and books.
Users are encouraged to ask for assistance should they encounter any difficulty in meeting their information needs.
The CEC is a facility within the health sciences, combining innovative educational methods with a progressive humanistic approach in order to facilitate the acquisition of a comprehensive range of cognitive, interactive, clinical reasoning and psychomotor skills. The CEC is available to faculty and students in the various departments of the Medical School as well as the Schools of Nursing and Rehabilitation Therapy. The Centre supports undergraduate and graduate education, faculty development, and continuing professional education.
This universally accessible facility, comprises 12650 square feet. It consists of 16 examination/interview rooms, with one-way mirrors and adjacent observation booths. There are five meeting rooms of varying sizes for didactic and small group work. A flexibly-designed skills development lab is used to replicate a variety of inpatient and ambulatory health-care settings. The CEC provides a computer lab with nine work stations linking to the Health Sciences Library, and advanced videotaping capabilities throughout. The Centre provides a setting where volunteer and standardized patients participate in education sessions, enabling students to practice clinical skills.
Sound educational concepts, which are difficult to utilize in traditional hospital settings, are utilized in the CEC, such as carefully staged learning of clinical skills, learning in an environment similar to the practice setting, protection from distraction, immediate feedback, and standardized evaluation methods. Students are encouraged to use the Centre for self-directed learning activities. Clinical Skills learning resources are available for users on site.
