Campus Alcorcón

Campus Description

It is located in the "Parque Oeste" of Alcorcón, where the development of a Technology Park is planned. Connected by railway, bus and underground it spreads over 28ha and includes 25 lecture rooms, a building with multi-purpose laboratories, two departmental buildings for research, the administrative and student services buildings, commercial area and sport facilities. This Campus is adjacent to the new Hospital of Alcorcón, now the University Hospital. It lodges the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University Clinic, where the students practice, is outstanding.

There is an underground station close it’s the campus.

Management Building

Dean’s office, Administration and Student Services.

Departmental Building

Lecture is offices and Research Laboratories.

Classrooms

There are two lecture halls. One of them has 11 classrooms that can hold from for 235 to 40 students. The other one has 14 classrooms that can hold from 125 to 84 students. It has also 2 computer rooms.

All students have access to Internet. A wireless networks fully covers the campus.

Laboratories

There are two buildings. One of them has nine laboratories and three seminar rooms for Biochemistry, Human Anatomy, Cytology/Histology, Microscopy, Nursing and Human Physiology, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. The other has seven laboratories, two for Psychomobility, two for Nursing, two for Occupational Therapy and one for Physiology.

These laboratories include: optical and confocal microscopes, a tissue culture facility, a fluorescence photomicroscope Zeiss Axioplan 2 and an aninverted microscope Zeiss Axioverts 100.

Library

It includes 14.800 volumes and 212 journals, a Health science video and software collection, standard databases such as (MEDLINE AMED, CINHAL, EMBASE), a reading room and book loan service, with 520 reading posts. There is access its nearly 20000 journals in electronic format.