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Tandy Medical Academic
Building Opens on OSU Campus
Facility Will Train Healthcare Providers for Rural Areas
Oklahoma State University (OSU) recently opened the
and other providers from around the state to join us
A.R. and Marylouise Tandy Medical Academic Building,
for continuing medical education training, special
an advanced medical education facility featuring the
education programming, conferences, and even youth
state's largest hospital simulation center. Designed by
camps to extend the teaching capabilities of this
Dewberry, the four-story, 84,000-square-foot building
academic building."
supports hands-on instruction and training within the
university's College of Osteopathic Medicine. The Tandy
Hands-On, Active Learning
Medical Academic Building is set on OSU's Center for
The 20,000-square-foot hospital simulation center
Health Sciences campus in Tulsa and is prominently
contains four simulation suites for trauma, ICU,
positioned to showcase OSU's expanding medical
surgery, and birthing. A flexible configuration
education program within the community.
allows for set-up, control, simulation, observation,
and reporting for a variety of medical applications,
Benefiting Rural Healthcare
with audio-visual recording technology available to
The building is designed to support the program's
provide feedback on activities. The suites feature highly
curriculum for medical students, physicians, nurses, first
functioning, programmable simulation manikins that
responders, and allied health providers, with a particular
enable hands-on training.
focus on training primary care providers to serve in
The building also features active learning
rural and underserved areas of Oklahoma. The college
classrooms, lecture halls, a conference center, and
is an active participant in Project ECHO (Extension
student support and study areas. The first floor houses
for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a national,
the hospital simulation center, the second floor focuses
collaborative model of medical education and care
on clinical skills, the third floor supports instruction in
management that networks rural doctors and empowers
osteopathic manipulative medicine, and the fourth floor
clinicians to provide better care to more people in the
features the 3,185-square-foot conference center with a
communities in which they live.
tiered lecture hall and two outdoor terraces.
"We are sharing this amazing center and its
"This academic building is a one-of-a-kind in this
simulation-learning tools with our entire community
region and the largest medical simulation program
of healthcare providers in addition to our medical
in the state. We have only just begun to explore the
students," said Kayse Shrum, D.O., president of OSU's
teaching potential of this new technology," noted OSU
Center for Health Sciences and dean of the College of
President Burns Hargis at the opening. "These simulators
Osteopathic Medicine, at the building's grand opening.
are giving OSU medical students a giant leap forward
"As part of our commitment to train primary care
in their understanding and hands-on learning of the
doctors and healthcare providers to serve rural and
human body so they will be much better prepared
underserved communities of Oklahoma, we are inviting
physicians when the patients are real."
nurses, medical assistants, surgical techs, phlebotomists,
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