Facilities
Students in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences benefit from full access to the facilities and resources of both universities including:
Laboratories
- Two clinical skills labs: one designed as a ward area and to develop skills that require a service user in a bed, such as moving and handling and one used to develop skills that can be acquired with a seated service user, such as measurement of blood pressure
- Clinical equipment including a range of adult, child and infant training mannequins, modules, first aid/resuscitation simulators and patient handling equipment
- Exercise physiology and biomechanics labs
Dissection rooms and bone library
- Shared facilities with medical and biomedical students
- Students highlight their access to the dissection room as being one of the top reasons to study with us
Extensive libraries and learning resource centres on each campus
- Dedicated subject librarians for the heath and social care sciences
- Structured teaching of information skills
- Dedicated resources (such as factsheets and web pages) to support research and study skills
- Access to computing facilities and a wide range of electronic research resources
- Students on placement also benefit from access to their local NHS library
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
- Dedicated web-based learning resources that allow staff and students to share access a wide range of online information
- VLE content includes discussion boards, wikis, podcasts, online presentations and downloads of lecture notes
Rehabilitation teaching rooms
