Welcome from Dean Rosenblatt
It is a very exciting time on the medical school campus, with the exterior and interior landscape changing right before our eyes.
Transformation of the Sackler building into a state-of-the art education building, with ample space for relaxation and recreation, is well underway. The Clinical Skills and Simulation Center opened this summer. Already well utilized for teaching and OSCEs, the 12 examination rooms, 3 simulation rooms, classrooms and conference rooms are drawing rave reviews. On October 27, we will be opening Food 4 Thought, the new cafe and study space on the fourth floor. Planned as a Main Street connection between the medical school, dental school and hospital, this floor will be the heart of the campus.
Just down the street, workers are busily transforming the former parking lot next to Jaharis to a green space that supplements the current outdoor cafe. Once plantings and benches have been installed in the spring, this area will serve as a new space for relaxation and interaction.
Please explore our website to view photos and floor plans, which highlight newly-completed spaces as well as upcoming construction. As always, we are eager to hear your comments.
Stay tuned as we continue in Building Our Future.
Michael Rosenblatt
Dean, Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts Medicine: A Better Quality of Life
A $15 million contribution from the Jaharis Family Foundation will transform medical education and the quality of life among medical students by creating a long-awaited campus center and a new clinical skills and simulation facility.
Steven Jaharis, '87, and his father, Michael Jaharis, have several objectives in making their generous gift. First, they want to improve medical school facilities and the sense of community for students. And by providing capital upfront, they intend to achieve this quickly--the campus center is scheduled to open by spring 2009. In addition, their philanthropy will provide more scholarship support for Tufts medical students through a matching gift mechanism.
To ensure that all phases of the project can be completed at once, Tufts University will contribute $5 million of its own money toward the campus center and medical education facilities. Tufts has also committed to raise an additional $7.5 million so that a portion of the Jaharis money can be released for more scholarships once the construction projects are complete.
Project Updates:
Clinical Skills and Simulation Center View Slideshow
In June, TUSM opened a newly renovated, 9000-square-foot training facility at 35 Kneeland Street, only steps away from Sackler, the main educational building. Students are using the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center to learn physical diagnosis, phlebotomy, interviewing, and simulated medical procedures. It is also the site for the the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), a component of the medical board exam.
The fully wireless center consists of a 50-person classroom, 12 patient exam rooms, 3 simulation rooms, four conference rooms, three observation/monitoring rooms, a lounge for standardized patients, and a suite of offices for the Office of Educational Affairs staff that manages the space.
Sackler Transformation: View Slideshow
The Sackler Center renovations aim to improve students' collaboration skills by creating spaces that foster communication and boost their confidence Four Learning Communities have been developed to support TUSM's new curriculum that emphasizes small-group, team-based learning.
Green Space: View Sketches of Planned Space
The outdoor area outside the Jaharis caf´ will soon be supplemented by a campus green space abutting Posner Hall. With grass, plantings and benches, this area has been designed as an inviting place for members of the health science campus to relax and enjoy being outside. The caf´ garden and the new green space can be joined for special occasions when the loading dock is not in use. Construction and landscaping should make the area usable by late fall, with shrubs and flowering plants planned for the spring season.
View sketches of planned space
Research Complex
- $10 million overhaul of South Cove and Arnold for research labs. Arnold windows are completed; the fitout of new neuroscience labs in Arnold is nearly complete
- October: begin project to replace electrical transformer in basement of Stearns. This will result in relocation of electrical works from front of building to rear.
- We will use this opportunity to create a cyber cafe, study space, and lockers for the MBS program, unite Public Health and Professional Degree programs into one contiguous space, relocate and modernize Public Safety, and change entryway to accessible street level.
- Window and roof replacement in M&V begins in summer of 2010. Two year project beginning on Harrison Ave side.
