Training Nurses and Doctors of the Future

(Article from the Sunshine Coast Daily 11^th February)

The new Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) will employ thousands of health staff and help tens of thousands of patients every year, but it's the next generation of health professionals who have christened the new health campus. Opposite the new hospital's main entrance, the 10,000sq m Sunshine Coast Health Institute (SCHI) is already hosting more than 1000 students after TAFE Queensland East Coast nursing and allied health students started last month.

The University of the Sunshine Coast will add 600 to the mix on 20^th February and the University of Queensland is also setting up camp in April. If federal government-funded training places are secured for a fully-fledged medical school at the site, medical students from its host university (at this stage understood to be Griffith University) will also be based at SCHI.

Tours through the SCUH are open to the public this weekend on Saturday 25^th February from 10.00am to 3.00pm. Visit www.SUH.eventbrite.com.au to register.