Graduate-entry course at Gippsland campus
This Monash Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree, which commenced at the Gippsland campus in 2008, is a four-year graduate-entry medical course. This first cohort of students graduated at the Gippsland Campus on Thursday 1st December 2011 and is now employed as interns in rural and regional hospitals.
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.
