New St. Mary’s Clinical Teaching Unit aims to provide ‘more time for hands on learning’ [Video]

A new Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU) is officially open at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener.

The new unit has been in operation since July, but a grand opening was held on Wednesday.

The CTU was funded by the St. Mary’s General Hospital Foundation, and is run in partnership with McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote, School of Medicine. The unit is located on the fourth floor of the hospital and focuses on providing internal care, while residents and nursing students can have hands on experience in the hospital.

“We’ve been delivering care for St. Mary’s for 100 years. This clinical teaching unit is going to help guide us into the future,” said Mark Fam, president of St. Mary’s General Hospital.

“A general internist kind of leading the team. Then a number of medical learners that see patients, build on their medical training through the core of their internal medicine to …