MBBS at Gippsland

Graduate-entry course at Gippsland campus

This Monash Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree, commencing at the Gippsland campus in 2008, is a four-year graduate-entry medical course.

The medical curriculum provides an interdisciplinary program, organised to provide integration of structure and function within the biomedical sciences. It presents a continually expanding level of medical experience, starting in the first semester of the course. In the first year, the basic medical sciences are taught in the context of their relevance to patient care. Later in the course, clinical teaching builds upon and reinforces this strong scientific foundation.

An emphasis on clinical communication skills and early clinical contact visits to medical practices, community care facilities and hospitals is a feature of the four-year graduate-entry Monash degree. All students will spend the majority of their time in rural and regional areas in eastern Victoria as part of a health care team.

Students enrolled in the four-year Gippsland medical course also have the opportunity of electing to study for an extra year for a Bachelor of Medical Science degree. During the 12 month period required for completion of the BMedSc, students undertake research activities supervised through a department of the faculty and complete a minor thesis. They will then graduate with both the MBBS and the BMedSc degrees after five years of study.

There are 40 Commonwealth-supported places in the first year of the Gippsland medicine course for Australian citizens and permanent residents. Up to ten fee-paying places for Australian citizens and permanent residents are available. Additional places are provided for international fee-paying students.