Monash University: University Handbooks: Postgraduate handbook 2005: Units indexed by faculty
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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Introduction to the faculty

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is a major and highly diverse faculty. It provides academic programs in medicine and many of the health sciences - nursing, public health, health services management, radiography and medical imaging, ambulance and paramedic studies, behavioural neuroscience, dietetics and nutrition - with a major commitment to biological and biomedical science and biotechnology.
The diversity of research disciplines in the faculty is reflected in its school structure. The faculty is divided into seven schools as follows:

School of Biomedical Sciences

Central and Eastern Clinical School

Southern Clinical School

School of Nursing & Midwifery

School of Primary Health Care

School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

School of Rural Health

Faculty centres

Within the school structure there are also five centres:

Monash Institutes of Health

The faculty is a driving partner in the Monash Institutes of Health (MIH), one of Australia's leading medical and biomedical science research complexes. MIH draws together the major teaching hospitals of Monash University, the research of Monash University and seven outstanding medical research institutes:

Other education and research links

The faculty links with four metropolitan Health Services (Bayside, Eastern, Southern and Peninsula), the state-wide Ambulance Services (Metropolitan and Rural) and major rural health services in Gippsland, Bendigo and Mildura. It also has relationships with professional associations and individual practitioners in general and specialist medical practice throughout Victoria.

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