Allied Health

The Department of Rural Health assists to organise clinical placements and support students on placement in a number of courses, including Physiotherapy, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Social Work.

Rural Physiotherapy
In the third and fourth years of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy degree, students spend much of their time in clinical studies undertaking core subjects in their clinical schools and specialist sites for paediatrics and geriatrics. All students undertake three electives with most spending at least one elective period overseas or in rural/outback Australia . Four or six week placements are available at Goulburn Valley Health and rural communities.

Physiotherapy undergraduate information

Contact Ms Elizabeth Williams (03) 5823 4541 e.williams@unimelb.edu.au

Advanced Medical Science Year

http://pbl1.medfac.unimelb.edu.au/ams

All students in the Undergraduate Entry Program of the MBBS degree undertake the BMedSc program. Students who do not wish to continue in the medical program can graduate with a BMedSc degree after successful completion of Semesters 1-7.

Advanced Medical Science is the final year of the Bachelor of Medical Science degree (BMedSc). It is undertaken in Semesters 6 and 7 and commences in July each year. This year can be undertaken as a two-semester unit. Each semester is of approximately twenty weeks duration. In this year students will acquire skills in the acquisition, evaluation and application of information (evidence) by undertaking in depth studies in an area of their choice related to medicine. This subject also allows the students to explore in greater depth than is possible in the body of the curriculum an area of relevance to medicine and to broaden their experience of health care and research by the opportunity to learn in off-campus settings. This year allows students not only to learn the theory behind evidence and research, but to experience it first hand and appreciate its difficulties and limitations. It also provides an opportunity for students to interact with researchers and better appreciate their role in the advancement of medicine.

At least half each unit must be research / investigative work. The Department of Rural Health provides a range of possible research projects which students might undertake. The actual research topic/project undertaken by individual students will be negotiated between the student and the Department, and need not necessarily be one of the examples provided in the unit description.

Contact Ms Donna Jackson (03) 5823 4501 or donnaj@unimelb.edu.au