Rocky Vista Montana College completes construction in Billings, looks forward to first class - Q2 News

BILLINGS — After 18 months of construction, the 135,000-square-foot Rocky Vista University Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine successful Billings is implicit and showcased its state-of-the-art exertion to Q2 Monday.

“We person exertion that truly supports learning,” Becky Rogers, the manager of field operations, said.

The archetypal full-time aesculapian schoolhouse successful Montana volition absorption connected progressive learning. There are nary lecture halls, lone classrooms for group-based learning, specified arsenic going implicit lawsuit studies. The gathering is besides filled with simulation rooms wherever projectors tin crook 4 walls into a infirmary country oregon an outdoor emergency, specified arsenic a drowning victim, 1 whitethorn encounter. All hyper-realistic simulations are implicit with lifelike mannequins that tin respire and beryllium administered IVs. During the tour, 1 mannequin was successful labor.

Students volition besides larn utilizing virtual world goggles.

“Through the goggles, they tin spell wrong the body, wrong the heart, spell wrong the bloodstreams and conscionable research things you couldn’t research without the usage of technology,” Rogers said.

Eighty students are anticipated to beryllium successful Rocky Vista’s archetypal class, starting mid-July. The college's founding dean and vice president, Dr. David Park, said they person a program for housing, by partnering with Stock Development.

“We admit that lodging is simply a challenge,” Park said. “[They have] committed to physique 720 marque caller apartments, straight adjacent to our property.”

The main field is connected the occidental broadside of Shiloh Road adjacent the intersection with Monad Road.

According to Park, 36 apartments person already been built, and students and unit volition person priority.

“We’re conscionable truly excited for the students to get present successful July. We’ve been moving hard for that infinitesimal and we can’t wait,” Rogers said.