Health Professions

The Health Professions Building is a leading center for interprofessional health and wellness education.

This academic building 鈥� located on University Avenue across from the Health and Counseling Center 鈥� offers abundant natural light, high-tech classrooms, collaborative learning spaces and state-of-the-art simulation facilities designed for experiential learning.

With advanced simulation centers, high-tech labs, and collaborative spaces, students will gain immersive, hands-on learning experiences that closely resemble real-world healthcare environments.

Simulation of a department in a hospital
Students practice their clinical skills in one of the simulation units.
快活视频nursing students pretending to take a baby's heart rate
With the help of a faculty member, students practice care on an infant in the simulation center.
Lecture hall
The Health Professions auditorium is used for interprofessional collaboration and education.
Simulation of a hospital hallway with x-rays
Students review charts in the M. Louise Beyard, RN Primary Care Clinic.  

The 240,000-square-foot building houses cutting-edge technologies, such as the Virtual Body Lab (Anatomage Lab) and immersive artificial reality labs, giving students access to the most advanced tools in healthcare education.

By bringing together five of the six health professions disciplines under one roof, the building fosters interprofessional collaboration, mirroring the team-based approach of modern healthcare.

快活视频students working on a diagram of the human body
Students explore the Virtual Body Lab (Anatomage Lab). 

This facility offers students immersive, real-world experiences in a safe setting, while enabling direct faculty feedback through: 

  • 19 collaborative classrooms that bring different disciplines together and enhance interprofessional education
  • a 350-seat auditorium for interprofessional collaboration and education
  • 8 audiology diagnostic labs
  • 10 specialty high-tech interprofessional labs including virtual body lab (Anatomage Lab), makerspace, clinical skills, health assessments, audiology diagnostics and activities of daily living
  • a state-of-the-art simulation center for skill development and hands-on patient care practice for acute, multi-patient and primary care scenarios
  • collaboration zones throughout the building that allow faculty and students to gather and explore research and evidence-based practice
快活视频nursing students sitting on a rooftop garden
Students unwind in the respite garden.

In addition to the classrooms, labs and simulation centers inside, the building has three rooftop gardens. This includes the respite garden on the sixth floor that supports students鈥� and faculty鈥檚 self-care as they encounter the high intensity of healthcare careers. 

About the College of Health Professions

The College of Health Professions provides an outstanding experiential, interprofessional education for undergraduate and graduate students. It prepares lifelong learners and leaders who exhibit high ethical standards and professionalism, advances healthcare knowledge through innovative practice and applied research and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to improve health and well-being for the campus, community and beyond.