Nobel Prize-winner opens $2.5 million lab in his name
Nobel Prize-winner and University of ÑÇÖÞ²ÊƱ¹ÙÍø medicine alumnus Emeritus Professor J. Robin Warren AC, talking with the Vice-Chancellor and President Professor James McWha and medical students in the new clinical skills lab.
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Thursday, 24 May 2012
Medicine and nursing students from the University of ÑÇÖÞ²ÊƱ¹ÙÍø will gain vital clinical skills thanks to a new, state-of-the-art teaching facility named after one of the University's most illustrious medical graduates, Emeritus Professor AC.
Professor Warren, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2005, has today opened the new Robin Warren Clinical Skills Laboratory at the University's Medical School with Health Minister the Hon. John Hill.
The Robin Warren Lab is a $2.5 million facility where students can practise and learn the fundamentals of medical consulting and nursing. The lab features single-bed "mini wards" that are fully equipped as if they were real hospital wards, including actual hospital beds, bathrooms and showers. Change rooms, tutorial rooms, and a debriefing area are also included.
First and second-year will use the lab to learn how to talk to patients, take their histories, and make diagnoses. This interaction will be with "surrogate patients" - trained actors posing