Facilities available for use by the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) include the following:
New FMS Building: Construction of the new FMS building has been completed and the building was officially declared open by the Principal, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, on October 22, 2009. The three storey building has a 200 person capacity lecture theatre, multimodal and multidisciplinary teaching labs and research labs. In addition to classrooms and laboratories, the building houses a state of the art research facility, designed in a modular fashion, in order to accommodate the research efforts and needs of the faculty’s basic science investigators. The research space will soon be fully equipped with core research equipment to support the basic science discovery efforts of the FMS scientific teams.
FMS Administration Building: This building houses offices for the Dean, faculty, administrative staff as well as medical student lockers.
Lecture Halls: In addition to the 200 person lecture theatre in the new FMS building, there are three lecture halls (LR6, LR10, LR11) dedicated for use by our teaching staff and students. These lecture rooms are located in the teaching complex adjacent to the FMS main building. All three lecture halls are reserved for specific time slots and are equipped with the necessary audiovisual equipment.
Laboratory Space: The Faculty of Medical Sciences laboratory is housed on an entire floor of the new FMS building. This laboratory space is dedicated to teaching Anatomy/Histology labs as well as Biochemistry/Cell Biology/Physiology/Pharmacology labs.
Library: The Cave Hill Campus Library at UWI and all its facilities are available for use by the FMS students. Additionally, internet access is available through a computer lab on campus as well as campus-wide WI-FI connection inside and outside the classrooms. This library houses materials chiefly for Phase 1 students.
The QEH Medical Library: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Library is situated next to the chapel and behind the medical students lounge at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. It is the respository of books and periodicals in the clinical disciplines, coordinates access to a large number of electronic journals, and serves both the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the QEH staff and other health professionals of Barbados. Students can use this library on production of ID. The Library opening hours are 8.30 a. m. – 6 p. m. Monday to Friday.
