Clinical training placements

Clinical placements give you the opportunity to apply your academic knowledge and enhance your practical skills. Embedded throughout the course are structured Australian and international clinical experiences that allow you to experience different health systems, cultures and clinical presentations.

Our Australian clinical learning environments include MQ Health, the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) and the MindSpot Clinic. Your international experience is predominately within the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad, India.

Apollo Hospital – Hyderabad, India

The mission of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise is to bring healthcare of international standards within the reach of every individual. Apollo is committed to the achievement and maintenance of excellence in education, research and healthcare, and has long-standing experience in the delivery of medical education and post-graduation training. Having affiliations with a number of international medical education organisations, Apollo clinicians are highly trained.

The Apollo Hospitals Group is recognised as the pioneer of private healthcare in India, and was the country’s first corporate hospital. Founded in 1983 with a 150-bed hospital by Dr Prathap C. Reddy, it now has 9200 beds across 64 hospitals.

Apollo’s first Health City campus in Hyderabad offers an integrated healthcare model with 470 inpatient beds and extensive outpatient clinics, including Centres of Excellence for Heart Diseases, Cancer, Joint Diseases, Emergency, Renal Diseases, Neurosciences, Eye and Cosmetic Surgery. Underpinned by a significant focus on training and research aimed at preventing disease and improving patient outcomes. Apollo offers every patient high-quality care.

MindSpot

The MindSpot Clinic is Australia’s first free online and telephone mental health clinic and is located at Macquarie University campus.

The Clinic was started in 2012 by a team of national and international experts led by researchers from Macquarie University, as part of the Australian Government’s mental health reform package to improve access and expand mental health services in remote areas across Australia – with approximately 30 per cent of patients from a rural or remote area and 3 per cent of patients reporting that they are from an Indigenous background.

Through a secure and sophisticated state-of-the-art online clinical treatment platform, MindSpot has provided services for more than 50,000 Australians.

MQ Health

MQ Health is the first university-led integrated health campus in Australia. With a vision of becoming a world-class health sciences centre, MQ Health brings together clinical care provided by Macquarie University Hospital and MQ Health clinics with the teaching and research enterprise of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, to provide an integrated approach to holistic patient treatment, discovery and continuous learning.

We partner with our patients and their families in their healthcare journey. Our signature clinical programs and services coordinate patients’ needs from initial consultation at primary care and specialist clinics, imaging and allied health through to inpatient hospital treatment if required.

This approach is supported by a culture of caring, integrity, teamwork, ambition, innovation and engagement, which results not only in better quality of care overall, but ultimately improves the lives of our patients and the communities in which they live.

Northern Sydney Local Health District

With a vision to be ‘leaders in healthcare, partners in community wellbeing’, the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) has an established reputation for providing exceptional clinical training to medical students. Clinical experiences within NSLHD provide students with the full range of clinical presentations, opportunities to interact with patients and healthcare teams in inpatient and outpatient settings, and exposure to a high-volume and varied case mix. Students will primarily have clinical experiences at either the Royal North Shore Hospital or Northern Beaches Hospital.

Northern Beaches Hospital

Northern Beaches Hospital (NBH) is operated by Healthscope, a leading provider of private healthcare services within Australia. Healthscope has partnered with the NSW Government to provide care for both public and private patients at NBH. Located in Frenchs Forest NSW, NBH opened in 2018, and is a purpose-built facility dedicated to the healthcare needs of the Northern Beaches community.

Partnering with Macquarie University, Northern Beaches Hospital provides innovative medical education to senior medical students in the domains of medicine, surgery, mental health, critical care, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology.

Elective placements are available for four or eight weeks, with a minimum of four weeks in each department. Students undertaking an elective at Northern Beaches Hospital will experience hands on experience alongside other health professionals in a clinical teaching environment.

The Royal North Shore Hospital

Founded as a cottage hospital in 1887, the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), after its latest major redevelopment which was completed in 2015, has 600 beds and employs 5000 staff. It is the referral hospital for northern Sydney and is also a major trauma centre, providing specialised services in the areas of severe burns, spinal cord injury, neonatal intensive care and interventional cardiology.

It is a major teaching hospital in Sydney, providing clinical training to medical students since 1948, and offers students a high-quality, safe and appropriately equipped environment to support their clinical learning in mental health, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and emergency medicine.

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