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Undergraduate Studies

The School of Rural Health is part of the Australian Government’s Rural Clinical School Project which allows students to study in rural areas for substantial periods during the clinical years of their medical undergraduate course.  MBBS students can spend time at 15 or more rural placement sites across regional Victoria.  The School of Rural Health through its four distinct Regional Clinical Schools teach over 25% of Monash’s students in the clinical years three, four and five of the MBBS course.Mildura, Bendigo, Gippsland and East Gippsland Regional Clinical Schools provide the students with a means of negotiating the curriculum and examinations by taking advantage of the clinical and teaching opportunities that exist in their region.

The Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Studies in Rural Health (CMDS) aims to develop undergraduate programs for nursing and allied health disciplines and to develop and support indigenous health curricula across the MBBS and undergraduate health sciences courses.  Currently the CMDS collaborates in delivering elements of the MBBS and in collaboration with the School of Nursing provides the Bachelor of Nursing/Rural Health Practice double degree - a four year program that aims to develop a graduate nurses who are committed to rural practice.

The new MBBS - Extended Rural Cohort stream

Commencing in 2007, the five-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) medical course will introduce the Extended Rural Cohort stream. This stream is aimed at students interested in practicing medicine in a rural or regional location. Students enrolled in the Extended Rural Cohort stream will undertake the majority of their clinical training and education within hospitals and community-based practices in northern Victoria.

Preference will be given to applicants from northern Victoria, as well as others eligible to be considered for a place via the Deans Rural List. Students eligible to be considered for a place via the Dean's Indigenous List are also encouraged to apply. Students not eligible for the Dean's Rural List or Dean's Indigenous List may also apply. All places in the Extended Rural Cohort stream are Commonwealth-Supported Places (CSP; previously called HECS).

Further information including admission and selection procedures can be found at the course website. Alternatively please contact the School of Rural Health on (03) 5440 9000.