Master diagnosing and managing diseases
Gain hands-on experience of working with patients and use the industry-standard equipment in our Pharmacy and Biomedical Science Teaching Centre
Our Pharmacy and Biomedical Science Teaching Centre is a multi-purpose space equipped to simulate a clinical environment for you to practise the skills required to diagnose and help people manage illnesses and diseases – in a safe, supervised environment.
If you're a student on our MPharm (Hons) Master's degree course, you'll use the centre to practise advising patients, dispensing medicines and making physical assessments in order to become a registered pharmacist.
If you're following the PgCert Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists course, you'll be able to use this facility to improve your physical assessment, counselling and consultation skills.
Students on our BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science course can engage in collaborative microscopy. The teaching centre is a flexible space so it facilitates small-group collaborative learning for all undergraduates using it, including those on the BSc (Hons) Pharmacology course.
Explore our teaching centre
Equipment and amenities
The centre has capacity for 70 students and contains 8 consultation rooms.
The area can be split into 2 separate spaces – each with 4 consultation rooms – to accommodate 36 and 34 students respectively. There are 22 bays where you can practise dispensing medicines to patients.
This area includes 14 beds where you can carry out mock cardio-vascular, musculoskeletal, neurological and respiratory assessments with instruments such as stethoscopes – for listening to the body's internal sounds – and tuning forks to assess a patient's hearing
This includes 12 training arms on which you can practise taking a patient's blood pressure.
Featuring 14 microscopes with digital pads, which transmit a magnified image from the eyepiece onto large screens for analysis.
You'll have access to 8 ear diagnostic training devices, which allow you to practise looking into the ear canal using an otoscope to check for various conditions.
Including 10 injection training devices, which enable safe practice of using needles on patients.
This includes 2 spirometers for measuring the movement of air into and out of the lungs, and 4 Smoke Check meters for measuring the concentration of carbon monoxide on the breath.
Featuring a range of measurement devices for blood pressure, blood oxygen level, body mass index and temperature.
Our centre includes stocks of medicines that you'll use for dispensing practice.
You'll have access to an online patient medical record system, for use in the dispensing bays but which you can also access remotely for off-site practice.
You'll benefit from a range of devices within our centre, including:
- 55 Chromebook laptop computers, with a further 50 available in the Faculty of Science and Health
- 12 iPads for filming your mock consultations
- 2 Clevertouch presentation screens (75-inch), one in each half of the area, which can be used independently or stream to selected other screens
- Kramer VIA GO advanced presentation device that gives iOS, Android, Chromebook, PC and Mac users wireless connectivity with the Clevertouch screens
- 12 presentation screens, 42/43 inches in size
- Public address system with induction loop for hearing aid users
Our facility has 2 dedicated technicians who can provide support in setting up and using equipment in addition to carrying out maintenance.
Devices include:
- 4 abdominal trainer devices, which mimic different pathologies and allow you to practice abdominal examinations
- 1 dedicated Nursing Anne simulator which uses telemetry to simulate respiratory, cardiovascular and abdominal conditions and helps to teach patient care
Where to find us
Pharmacy and Biomedical Science Teaching Centre
2nd floor
St Michael's Building
Faculty of Science and Health
University of Portsmouth
White Swan Road
Portsmouth
PO1 2DT