Medicine, nursing and healthcare facilities

Operating Department Practice facilities

Study Operating Department Practice at ARU, and use purpose-built skills labs that simulate aspects of the surgical environment.

You'll get hands-on with sophisticated healthcare equipment, and practice skills including:

  • airway management
  • surgical scrubbing, gloving and gowning
  • preparing a patient for surgery
  • communicating with patients
  • basic and invasive monitoring
  • setting up equipment
  • preparation for emergency situations.

Skills sessions take place throughout your course, and support what you learn in lectures and out on placement. You'll benefit from working in small groups with supportive tutors.

"[Sometimes] I have seen or heard things in placement and even after asking questions, I have struggled to understand them. However, once I can get hands on in the skills lab, everything comes together and starts to make sense. The skills lab sessions have been undeniably beneficial to my learning, and I feel very lucky to have access to such an engaging environment!"

Sophie Cunningham, Operating Department Practice student

Read more about Sophie's experiences in the ODP skills labs.

Learn more about our BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice degree.

Operating Department Practice facilities

The hand of an ODP student practicing making an incision in a darkened skills lab
ODP facilities

State-of-the-art skills labs

Three ODP students practicing on a dummy in a darkened skills lab
ODP facilities

State-of-the-art skills labs

An ODP student practicing on a dummy in the skills lab
ODP facilities

State-of-the-art skills labs

Two ODP students practicing on a dummy in the skills lab
ODP facilities

State-of-the-art skills labs

The hands of an ODP student practicing using a syringe in the skills lab
ODP facilities

State-of-the-art skills labs

An ODP student intubating a dummy in the skills lab
ODP facilities

State-of-the-art skills labs