City South Campus in Edgbaston, to the south of the City Centre, is home to our Faculty of Health. Our students learn in the most realistic settings – from a mock operating theatre and hospital wards to a fully equipped birthing room and virtual radiotherapy suite.
Facilities
Seacole building boasts a state-of-the-art library and learning centre, IT suite, lecture theatres, teaching and office areas, a bar and shop. There is also a Skills Suite which hosts a series of specialist rooms set up to teach specific skills - including a number of mock hospital wards complete with simulated 'patients' (known as SIM Men), a mock operating theatre, plaster room, birthing room and home environment.
New teaching facilities include a virtual radiotherapy suite, a radiography imaging suite, a simulated home environment for visual rehabilitation students to learn how to help those with limited or complete loss of sight, and a specialist resource room, fitted with a two-way mirror to allow Speech and Language Therapy students to review and develop effective communication skills.
Latest developments
Following a £30 million refurbishment, the Seacole Building was opened in 2006, and won a Built in Quality award from Birmingham City Council in 2007.
With the recent completion of a new £2 million teaching wing, all our health and social care students are now based at City South Campus. Our diagnostic radiotherapy, radiotherapy, speech and language therapy, visual rehabilitation and foundation degree in health and social care courses moved here from City North Campus in summer 2011.
Campus accessibility
All areas of Seacole building which require student access ie teaching rooms, library and café facilities, are fully accessible. Bevan House and the ground floor of Ravensbury House are also accessible.