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to the Amsterdam Skills Centre

More than four hundred years after Rembrandt visited an anatomy lesson and created his world-famous painting, we reveal the Amsterdam Skills Centre for Health Sciences only a few miles from where the operational theatre of the famous Dr. Nicolaes Tulp once was. On average, it takes more than 30.000 hours of learning…

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State of the art skills centre

Top European Skills Centre, training and educating thousands of people each year.

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Multipurpose meetingrooms

Large classrooms with the latest AV and streaming options. Room for up to 200 pax.

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Spacious wet labs & dry labs

Spacious mulitfunctional wet labs, 12 fully equipped OR-stations on 500m2.

 

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Work, lounge & lunch

Plenty of space to work, lunch, lounge and relax.
Including bar and large terrace.

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Courses

Expert Opinions

Stuart Silk

President Stryker Europe

Thanks to the close collaboration between VUmc and AMC, the Amsterdam Skills Centre will be a new academic landmark.

We see this state of the art facility as a unique partnership between university, industry and NGOs in an innovative melting pot.

Hans Romijn

Chairman Amsterdam UMC

The skills of surgeons and other medical professionals, who are trained with simulators, turn out to be higher than the skills learned via traditional methods.
Virtual learning environments are essential to improve surgical skills and to render healthcare more sustainable.

Jaap Bonjer

Chair Dept. Surgery Amsterdam UMC

Amsterdam already has a sound track record of academic medical teaching for hundreds of years. Right here, almost 400 years ago Rembrandt painted his famous ‘anatomy lesson’.

Now again Amsterdam is building the next generation medical learning platform, based on a complete new way of learning and teaching.

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