The Medicine program at UNSW is grounded in the principles of experiential learning, with an emphasis on learning in real places of medical work. A significant amount of teaching therefore occurs in teaching hospitals and other clinical environments.
In all three phases of your program, you will be required to travel to various clinical environments associated with UNSW. In Phase 1 the majority of teaching occurs on the campus with fortnightly clinical sessions held at hospitals, in Phase 2 teaching in clinical environments increases to 3 days per week and in Phase 3 almost all teaching is conducted in clinical environments. In Phase 2 and Phase 3, clinical environments include hospitals and general practices which are located in Sydney and Rural sites, mainly in New South Wales.
To ensure UNSW Medicine effectively uses the clinical placements available in hospitals and general practices and to maximise students’ opportunities to obtain a range of clinical experiences, the allocation of students to clinical environments is governed by the Clinical Allocation Guidelines. Students are expected to read these guidelines, to understand the process for allocation of placements and the factors that UNSW Medicine will and will not take into consideration.
More information regarding Allocation of Students to Clinical Environments is available here
If you have any queries or concerns, please contact:
BMedMD Teaching Support Team
BMed.PM@unsw.edu.au
The information in the attached materials is accurate at the time of production. From time to time, and usually in response to changing Government regulations or Faculty policies, there may be some changes in aspects of the Program as you go through and where this happens, you will be advised at the earliest opportunity.
