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Undergraduate Handbook 2009 - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

 

Faculty information

• Structure and organisation of the faculty
• Criminal record checks, health examinations and vaccination requirements
• Enrolment with Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria for MBBS students

Areas of study

• Undergraduate areas of study

Course information

• Outline of undergraduate studies
  • Courses offered in 2009
  • Courses with no further intake

Course-related policies and rules

• Government and University legislation

Structure and organisation of the faculty - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is a robust research and teaching network operating at campuses in Australia and overseas, and encompasses around 2000 paid academic, technical and general staff. Our students tackle areas including ambulance and paramedic studies, behavioural neuroscience, biomedical science, health sciences, medicine, midwifery, nursing, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, social work and radiography and medical imaging. We also teach many science students.

The Faculty comprises ten schools:

• Central Clinical School
  • Department of Medicine
  • Department of Pathology and Immunology
  • Department of Surgery

• Eastern Health Clinical School

• School of Biomedical Sciences
  • Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
  • Department of Microbiology
  • Department of Pharmacology
  • Department of Physiology
  • Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories (MISCL)

• School of Nursing and Midwifery (at Peninsula and Gippsland)

• School of Primary Health Care
  • Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice
  • Department of General Practice
  • Department of Health Science
  • Department of Occupational Therapy
  • Department of Physiotherapy
  • Department of Social Work

• School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

• School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Centre for Obesity Research and Education
  • Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
  • Department of Forensic Medicine
  • Monash Institute of Health Services Researc

• School of Rural Health (based at Latrobe Regional Hospital, Traralgon, with major sites at Mildura, Bendigo and Bairnsdale)

• Schools of Medicine (teaching locations at Clayton, Gippsland and Sunway, Malaysia)

• Southern Clinical School
  • Department of Anaesthesia
  • Department of Medicine
  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Department of Paediatrics
  • Department of Surgery
  • Monash Institute for Reproduction and Development

The faculty nurtures strong links with research institutes such as the Baker Medical Research Institute (The Alfred), the Prince Henry's Institute for Medical Research (Monash Medical Centre), the Mental Health Research Institute, and the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health.

We also work closely with major teaching hospitals including Monash Medical Centre, The Alfred and Box Hill. In total, the Faculty operates in 125 practices and 68 hospitals.

Chaired by the dean, the Faculty Board governs academic operations. Heads of the ten schools support the dean with administrative and resource management matters, while the faculty manager governs the overall general, teaching and research administration of the faculty. Associate deans and deputy deans provide assistance regarding academic and student matters.

The offices of the assistant deans (clinical) and hospital clinical deans coordinate teaching in the hospitals and other clinical settings. Heads of schools - in conjunction with 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 Faculty’s overall academic activities.

 

Criminal record checks, health examinations and vaccination requirements - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Criminal record checks in courses with compulsory clinical placements

Note that criminal records checks ('police checks') are required for the practical and professional experience placements in courses with clinical placements. You will be required to obtain and pay for a police check prior to undertaking any such placement. If you fail the police check, you may not be able to undertake a placement and in most cases this will mean you cannot complete the requirements of your course. Placements also commonly require that you are available to undertake the placement on a full-time basis and attend your placement for whole days. This special requirement is common to a number of courses in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

Further information

• Contact your faculty placement officer or course coordinator for more details specific to your type of placement.
• Students who have a disability should contact the relevant placement officer within the first week of the year so that appropriate provision can be made for any placements required in that year.

Comprehensive health examinations/vaccinations in courses with clinical placements/internships

Students in the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, and those undertaking studies in ambulance and paramedic studies, nursing, nutrition and dietetics, and radiography and medical imaging courses need to comply with confidential tests for immune status (including blood tests and skin tests), receive vaccines and have X-rays where the evidence indicates these are appropriate and there are not specific contra-indications in individual cases.

The faculty recommends that all students accept responsibility for having up-to-date immunisations before commencing their course. Immunisations recommended include diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis and hepatitis B.

Prospective students should note that upon enrolment, students are provided with detailed written information and, as appropriate, counselling about the effect that HIV or hepatitis B infection may have on the ability of health care workers to practise their profession. Additionally, arrangements will be made by the faculty for students to have a personal consultation early in the first year with a medical practitioner. At this time, a check for each student's immunity to diseases may be conducted and students may be offered advice and counselling about infectious diseases and their personal health.

Further information

• The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and health Sciences' Stududent Immunisation andf Infection Risk Policy is available at http://www.med.monash.edu.au/current/docs/immunisation-infection-risk.pdf.

Undergraduate areas of study - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

 

• Ambulance and paramedic studies
• Behavioural neuroscience
• Biomedical science
• Biotechnology
• Health science*
• Medicine
• Nursing and midwifery
• Nutrition and dietetics
• Occupational therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Psychology
• Radiography and medical imaging
• Social work

* See Health science for information about the combined health science/social work degree.

Enrolment with Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria for MBBS students - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

All enrolled medical students are required by the Medical Practice Act to be registered with the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria. The faculty and the board will arrange each year for the registration of medical students.

On the presumption that students enrolling into the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) do so with the intention of practising as a doctor, it is important to be alerted to the role of the Medical Practice Act and the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria and, well ahead of time, to the legislation which relates to medical registration in Victoria.

The prime purpose of the Medical Practice Act is to protect the public. The act stipulates that the board is to refuse to register as doctors persons who:

• are not of good character
• have been convicted of a serious crime
• are ill in a manner which may put the community at risk
• are not able to complete the training and clinical experience required under provisional registration (ie internship).

After completion of the final year of the course and graduation, you will be required to apply for provisional registration with the Medical Practitioners Board. You will be asked to sign a statutory declaration attesting (1) that you have never been convicted of a serious crime and (2) that you are not presently under treatment for, or suffer from, any condition or illness which may impair your ability to practise and which may put the community at risk. This statement is provided to you to:

• remind you of the vocational nature of your course and the strict requirements laid down for registration of medical practitioners by the Parliament of Victoria, and
• give you the opportunity to consider your position, and seek appropriate advice, if you suffer from an illness or condition which could prevent you from being granted provisional registration or if you have been convicted of a serious crime.

Further information

• Contact the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences for more details.

 

Courses offered in 2009 - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Caulfield

Diplomas

• 2193 Diploma of Psychology
• 2088 Graduate Diploma in Psychology

Single degrees

• 0004 Bachelor of Social Work
• 3882 Bachelor of Health Science
• 3965 Bachelor of Health Science and Bachelor of Social Work (with Honours)

Double degrees

• 3426 Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Social Work
• 3870 Bachelor of Health Science / Bachelor of Social Work

Honours degrees

• 3864 Bachelor of Social Work (with Honours)

Clayton

Diplomas

• 2193 Diploma of Psychology
• 2088 Graduate Diploma in Psychology

Single degrees

• 2230 Bachelor of Biomedical Science
• 2341 Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience
• 0040 Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery
• 3404 Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics
• 3883 Bachelor of Psychology (with Honours)
• 1963 Bachelor of Radiography and Medical Imaging

Double degrees

• 3804 Bachelor of Biomedical Science / Bachelor of Economics
• 3879 Bachelor of Biomedical Science / Bachelor of Engineering
• 3356 Bachelor of Biomedical Science / Bachelor of Laws
• 3528 Bachelor of Biomedical Science / Bachelor of Science
• 1074 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery / Bachelor of Laws

Honours degrees

• 0041 Bachelor of Medical Science
• 3514 The Honours degree of Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience
• 3418 The Honours degree of Bachelor of Biomedical Science
• 3865 The Honours degree of Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics
• 3954 The Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Psychology and Business (Psychology)

Gippsland

Diplomas

• 2193 Diploma of Psychology

Single degrees

• 0727 Bachelor of Nursing
• 3558 Bachelor of Nursing and Rural Health Practice
• 3863 Bachelor of Psychology and Business
• 3952 Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery
• 3955 Bachelor of Nursing Studies

Double degrees

• 3953 Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Midwifery

Honours degrees

• 0041 Bachelor of Medical Science

Peninsula

Diplomas

• 2808 Diploma of Ambulance Paramedic Studies

Single degrees

• 3445 Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic)
• 3562 Bachelor of Midwifery
• 0727 Bachelor of Nursing
• 3436 Bachelor of Nursing (Psychological Studies)
• 3869 Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
• 3868 Bachelor of Physiotherapy
• 3863 Bachelor of Psychology and Business
• 3955 Bachelor of Nursing Studies

Double degrees

• 3892 Bachelor of Nursing / Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic)

Honours degrees

• 3891 Bachelor of Physiotherapy (with Honours)
• 3881 The Honours degree of Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic)

Sunway

Single degrees

• 3856 Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery
• 1707 Bachelor of Nursing (Post Registration)
• 3863 Bachelor of Psychology and Business

Honours degrees

• 0041 Bachelor of Medical Science
• 3954 The Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Psychology and Business (Psychology)

South Africa

Single degrees

• 3863 Bachelor of Psychology and Business

Honours degrees

• 3954 The Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Psychology and Business (Psychology)

Singapore

Diplomas

• 2088 Graduate Diploma in Psychology

Single degrees

• 3863 Bachelor of Psychology and Business
• 0004 Bachelor of Social Work

Honours degrees

• 3867 Honours Degree of Bachelor of Psychology
• 3954 The Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Psychology and Business (Psychology)
• 3864 Bachelor of Social Work (with Honours)

Courses with no further intake

The following courses remain unaltered since the last year of intake. Current students should refer to the handbook entry for the year in which they commenced their studies. Archived handbooks are available at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/.

• 0412 Bachelor of Nursing (Post Registration)
• 2813 Bachelor of Paramedic Studies