The Health Education Campus is built to promote cross-disciplinary understanding. It uses the principles of interprofessional education, which encourages health care students in all fields to learn with—and from—each other.

Medical, nursing, dental and even some social work students will take some classes together at the Health Education Campus, so they literally can learn the same language; no more translating what a doctor means into how a nurse understands it, or vice versa. That means faster, more effective communications—and treatments.

In addition, by understanding each discipline’s strengths and subjects, students will better understand how they can work together on a team-based approach to care. Research has shown this method leads to higher patient satisfaction and, most importantly, better care.

Learn more about interprofessional education.

Where You’ll Learn

The Health Education Campus features 26 classrooms, providing ample space for our approximately 2,200 medical, nursing, dental, physician assistant and social work students who will take classes here.

Among the classrooms are two-story “Case Method” classrooms as well as “team-based learning” classrooms, each of which feature multiple large video walls for content display and a sound system that allows everyone in the room to be heard throughout the space.

The first floor also will include a $5 million conference center featuring a 7,000-square-foot auditorium and 4,800-square-foot lecture hall, where students from all programs will gather for interprofessional lessons, featured speakers and demonstrations.

High-Tech Education

From its inception, leadership of Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic have been committed to ensuring that our state-of-the-art Health Education Campus provides the most advanced technology possible to enhance and accelerate education.

For example, our Virtual Simulation Lab will be home to our augmented-reality technology, Microsoft HoloLens. We’ll teach our entire anatomy curriculum with the HoloLens device—allowing students not only to see organs like the heart and lungs in three dimensions, but also to see inside the structures from every angle.

Watch how it works.

Students can get in-the-air experience on the ground in our Critical Care Transport Room, featuring the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s flight simulator, which combines a fuselage that pitches and rolls with video “windows” whose images mimic different airborne views. A nearby ambulance can be used to replicate real-world patient transfer experiences for the students. And all of the activity can be recorded to the simulation system by cameras and microphones in the room.

In our Medical Simulation Center, you’ll find 20 exam rooms and four acute care spaces. Cameras and microphones record students as they participate in examination and treatment exercises. The nursing school also has a Physician Assessment Teaching Lab and a Clinical Teaching Bed Lab, the latter of which also features recording technology for review.

We also have a Learning Lab, which will be outfitted with state-of-the-art technology for our faculty to train on the technology to ensure they provide our students with the highest quality education available.