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 Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health (MUDRIH) 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 MUDRIH collaborates in delivering elements of the MBBS and offers both undergraduate and postgraduate units covering rural health which may be undertaken as electives or single subject enrolments. See the MUDRIH web site for further details.
The Extended Rural Cohort stream
The Extended Rural Cohort 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, or contact the School of Rural Health on (03) 9905 1521.
