Amsterdam Skills Centre
New Way of Learning
AMSTERDAM SKILLS CENTRE
FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
INTRODUCTION
The Amsterdam Skills Centre (ASC) originated from, and is affiliated with two leading academic centres, VUmc and AMC in Amsterdam. They are building the next generation learning platform to generate, apply & spread the knowledge about new ways of surgical learning, training & teaching.
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The ASC centre will be one of the top European skills centres, training and educating multiple thousands of people each year, bringing people from more than 100 countries to Amsterdam to improve their skills & improve general patient safety. Our aim is to steepen the learning curve & shorten learning times by up to 33%, through educational research, by using big data, building new tools, and the worldwide collaboration of healthcare professionals developing the ‘New Way of Learning’.
The centre is equipped to teach and research all areas of surgery, including:
CENTRE
• orthopaedic
• minimally invasive
• (endo)vascular
• general
• cardiac
• colorectal
• gynaecological
• head & neck
• oral & maxillofacial
​• neuro
• ophthalmic
• paediatric
• reconstructive
• transplant
• trauma
• urologic
• and many more on request
EXPERT OPINIONS
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.
H. Jaap Bonjer, Chair Department of Surgery, VU Medical Centre
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.
Stuart Silk, President, Stryker Europe
The Amsterdam Skills Centre brings together the best of what Europe can offer in technology, industry, academics and clinicians. It will be a worldwide game changer for how we train and assess doctors and healthcare teams.
Stefan Park, CEO, Orzone
ACCOMMODATION
The 3700m2 centre is equipped with state of the art equipment. The accommodation provides space to:
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dry labs: the largest dry-lab simulator centre, from VR to full OR;
anatomy labs: unique world-class human tissue lab on facility;
multipurpose space: large auditorium, break-out rooms & meeting spaces;
wet labs: spacious wet lab, 12 full OR-stations on 500m2.
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PERFECT ACCESS
The Amsterdam Skills Centre, AMC and VUmc are all within a unique 15 minutes reach to the city centre and Schiphol Airport, serving 58 million passengers to more than 322 destinations.
WORLD WIDE CARE
No surgery access
At least 5 billion people of the world's population do not have access to surgery. Expanding access to surgery and anaesthesia care will require coordinated investment in surgical scale-up that grows the workforce, builds infrastructure, removes cultural and geographic barriers, and provides financial protection.
Blake C Alkire et al., Lancet, Global Health, 2015
New Way of Learning
The ‘New Way of Learning’ will be built on a platform, opening up e-learning & box-/on-site training for low and middle income countries. Brief and intense training periods will generate new healthcare professionals such as ‘basic surgical teams’. These teams will address the burden of surgical treatable diseases in low and middle income countries, focusing on the five biggest diseases that costs 300.000 lives per year and/or 10.000.000 healthy life years (DALY’s) each year.
CONTACT
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Amsterdam Medical Centre
Tafelbergweg 47, 1105 BD
Amsterdam-Zuidoost
Netherlands
