http://academic-medicine.org/announcement/opening-academia

Officially opened on 20 July 2013 by His Excellency President Tony Tan, the 13-storey purpose-built Academia houses Singapore General Hospital’s (SGH) pathology services and SingHealth’s research, education and training facilities in two towers. As the latest addition to SingHealth, Academia is a clear visual demonstration of the SingHealth group as an Academic Healthcare Cluster and a testament of SingHealth’s transformational journey to better patient care.

With a goal to pursue innovation and transform patient care delivery, Academia combines the best clinical and research capabilities to discover new and better treatment care for patients.

Designed to provide close proximity between research, diagnostic and education facilities within one state-of-the-art complex, Academia facilitates interconnectivity between clinician scientists, researchers, pathologists, educators and medical students, harnessing strengths to inspire better healthcare delivery.

Located close to clinical services on the SGH Campus and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Academia, with three floors dedicated to education and training, will provide healthcare staff with access to simulated environments as well as education and skills laboratories to hone their clinical and surgical skills, nursing care and life support skills.