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Health education, healthcare, and dense urban academic health campuses are rapidly changing. Programming, planning, and design must adapt to the increasingly dynamic space needs required to attract and prepare students for these new realities.

At the SCUP Southern Regional Conference, Flad's Marc Walker will be joined by leaders from the University of North Carolina and The SLAM Collaborative to lead a session illustrating the integrated planning process used to design Roper Hall, the new home of UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Attendees will learn how a collaborative approach is helping UNC achieve its project goals to become a top public medical school, extend its statewide reach, attract and support student life, and prepare for significant enrollment growth.

The presenters will demonstrate methods for planning dynamic spaces through benchmarking, a visioning process, stakeholder engagement, and virtual building tours to support evolving medical education and post-pandemic challenges.

Learning Outcomes:

• Foster future-focused approaches to space allocation that support shifting pedagogies in medical education.
• Engage stakeholders in multidisciplinary planning and design processes to achieve buy-in for new modalities of teaching and learning.
• Detail innovative problem-solving methods to generate multi-use space solutions that maximize utilization.
• Discuss how to innovate health science programming and facilities planning to lay the foundation for the next generation of physicians.