Facilities

The Medical Education Directorate has centres at Ashford, Canterbury and Margate. Each site has its own lecture theatre equipped with projectors and video conferencing units, plus seminar rooms equipped with computers and large widescreen monitors. Room capacities are as follows:

William Harvey Education Centre

Kent & Canterbury Education Centre

The K&C Education Centre also contains its own restaurant/dining area and a cyber café.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Education Centre

extensive set of equipment and training models

Simulation Training

As its name suggests, Simulation training is designed to replicate the experience of working in a real clinical environment (such as a ward, theatre, anaesthetic room, etc.) but using a sophisticated patient manikin (or simulated real patient). Multiple scenarios can be represented, and sessions are typically monitored (and recorded) from a control room via video links.

There are two simulation suites available, one at the WHH and the other at the QEQM.

For more information visit http://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/services/simulation-services/ (staffzone, login required).

Library

Library and Knowledge Services support staff and students with literature searches, finding evidence, research skills workshops, and journal and ebook access. They are represented across all three sites.

For more information visit http://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/staff/library-services/ (staffzone, login required).

Medical Illustration

We also have a Medical Photography and Illustration Department (based at Margate) which, in addition to recording clinical conditions of patients, also provides an income generated illustration service (posters, leaflets, drawings, lecture materials etc.).

For more information, visit http://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/staff/resources/medical-photography/ (staffzone, login required).