1999 Medicine Handbook - Structure and organisation of the faculty

Structure and organisation of the faculty

The Faculty of Medicine comprises the academic, technical, administrative and clerical staff as well as all students undertaking courses offered by the faculty.
The teaching departments of the Faculty of Medicine are Anaesthesia, Anatomy, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Community Medicine and General Practice, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Medicine, Microbiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Pathology and Immunology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychological Medicine, and Surgery. In addition the faculty has a School of Nursing, a Unit of Medical Informatics, a Unit of Radiography and Medical Imaging and research centres including the Institute for Reproduction and Development, the Centre for Early Human Development, the Centre for Rural Health, the Centre for Bioprocess Technology and the Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing. The faculty also has strong links with research institutes such as the Baker Medical Research Institute (Alfred Hospital), The Prince Henry's Institute for Medical Research (Monash Medical Centre), the Mental Health Research Institute (Royal Park Hospital), and the Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research.
The academic operations of the faculty are governed by the faculty board. The dean is the chairperson of faculty board and has administrative responsibility for the faculty. As head of the faculty, the dean is assisted with administrative matters by the faculty manager and administrative officers. Assistance with academic matters is provided by the associate deans and the assistant dean. Teaching in the hospitals and other clinical settings is coordinated through the offices of the clinical subdeans and the hospital clinical deans. Heads of departments and directors of centres and institutes provide academic leadership within their disciplines and are responsible for the management of staff and resources. Heads and directors together with all other professors play a significant role in the overall academic activities of the faculty.