Studying in Bendigo

Clinical training

Bendigo offers Year 3, 4 and 5 students a clinical experience unmatched by metropolitan placements.

In Years 3 and 5 you’ll spend most of your week at the hospital with hospital staff and tutors. If you want more experience, you can access the hospital after hours to do theatre or emergency. Staff are happy to mentor students who want to extend themselves.

In Year 4, you’ll be placed with practitioners in the Bendigo area.

The hospital gives you exposure to emergency, surgery, maternity and paediatric services, critical care, radiology, pathology, and psychiatric and aged care.

A large part of your clinical training is structured, to make sure you gain the experience and exposure you need. PBLs, tutorials and skills workshops are timetabled. So are ‘added extras’ such as pharmacology, extended ECG, ophthalmology and patient clinics.

Each year during a second semester study week, we bring speakers form Melbourne. This week culminates in an ABC trauma day complete with simulated patients

Accommodation

There are two types of accommodation in Bendigo. You’ll stay at either Lister House student accommodation or in one of the houses rented by Monash.

Lister House is located within walking distance of the centre of Bendigo, Mercy Street and both the Bendigo hospital and Anne Caudle campuses. It offers:

• 46 spacious furnished student rooms on three levels
• male and female bathrooms on each level
• attractive common room with six kitchens
• BBQ in central garden courtyard
• computer centre with access to university’s network
• wireless broadband access in student rooms

Download the guide to accommodation.

Rental houses are located around Bendigo and offer the same facilities as Lister House.