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:
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
- Microbiology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
- Forensic Medicine (Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine)
- Medicine, Alfred Hospital
- Medicine, Box Hill Hospital
- Pathology and Immunology
- Surgery, Alfred Hospital
- Anaesthesia
- Monash Institute of Health Services Research
- Monash Institute for Reproduction and Development
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Medicine, Monash Medical Centre
- Paediatrics
- Surgery, Monash Medical Centre
School of Nursing & Midwifery
- Ambulance and Paramedic Studies
- General Practice
- Social Work
Within the school structure there are also five centres:
- Centre for Ambulance and Paramedic Studies
- Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (Monash Medical Centre)
- Centre for Developmental Disability (with the University of Melbourne)
- Centre for Health Services Operations Management
- Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education
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:
- Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development
- Monash Research Cluster for Biomedicine
- Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research
- Baker Heart Research Institute
- Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
- International Diabetes Institute
- Monash Institute of Health Services Research
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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