Adelaide University health and medical sciences building at biomedical precinct teaches on many levels

The health and medical sciences building on North Terrace, Adelaide, was Adelaide University's largest works project

The $246 million University of Adelaide health and medical sciences building on North Terrace joined the Adelaide health and biomedical precinct in 2017. The Lyons Architects-designed building, largest works project in the university’s history, supported more than 1700 medicine, nursing and dentistry students and about 400 health sciences researchers. The building was home to:

• Adelaide medical school, the university’s largest, with successful researchers, talented academic teachers and a large pool of motivated clinical titleholders for the clinical years of the medical program..

• Adelaide nursing school, established with the Royal Adelaide Hospital, promoted world-class nursing practice through excellence in student-centred teaching. Nursing was taught as a practice humanistic discipline with a fundamental responsibility to promote health and alleviate suffering.

• Adelaide dental school, with a history over more than a century, offered clinically-focused undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in dentistry and oral health. Students had access to the leading-edge dental simulation clinic to practise real-world patient care.

•Adelaide rural clinical school offered and supported clinical health education programs, and promoted rural health as a career providing high-quality, hands-on medical education experiences in a dynamic rural setting. Students experienced a strong emphasis on problem-solving and clinical reasoning.

• The school of allied health science and practice offered South Australia’s most comprehensive and globally recognised health education, with undergraduate honours degrees in physiotherapy, speech pathology and occupational therapy.

• The school of psychology was unique in South Australia in offering three professional master programs leading to registration as a psychologist (clinical, health and organisational and human factors).

University of Adelaide health and medical sciences building had most technologically advanced simulation in Australasia, for excellence in learning and teaching – the only one accredited by the Society for simulation in healthcare.

Also in the building was the Robinson Research Institute, a collective of internationally renowned researchers in human reproduction, pregnancy and child health at Adelaide University.