Central Clinical School laboratory placements for medical students

Central Clinical School offers laboratory placements for undergraduate medical (MBBS) students. The placement activities are designed to give students experience with routine standard operational procedures in a laboratory. This is a great way to explore and gain an insight into current medical research. See laboratory details below, or at: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/translational/lab-placements.html.

Those who are interested please register your interest here (Registration form). For any queries, please contact Ms Sharmila Ramesh (ph 990 30368, email sharmila.ramesh@monash.edu).

Monash changes medicine degree from 2017

Medical degree articulation. Students can complete the BMedSc(Hons) after the first part - the BMedSc - of the locked double degree. They can then return to and complete the MD or continue into an accelerated PhD and return thereafter to the MD.

Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (MD)

The Monash University School of Medicine is internationally recognised for providing a world-class education with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to medical training.

Our medical program, the Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (MD), has been designed in close consultation with doctors, health care professionals and leaders in the health and research sectors in order to give our students the scientific background and clinical expertise needed for a successful career as a doctor.

Medical student mentoring at Central Clinical School/Alfred Health

by Robert Gillies, Year 5D MBBS student

The Academic Mentor Program is a student-run initiative that was established long before I started studying at Monash. It involves final year medical students volunteering an hour of their time per week to tutor and mentor an assigned group of third year students.

The tutes are unique in that they can be exam-focused, and are peer-driven; so they are less formal and can be more flexible, which facilitates a different kind of learning. Though the tutorials aren't compulsory for third year medical students, I remember them being a great networking opportunity.

 There's so much more than medicine that you can learn from older students - you can learn how to cope with difficult patient interactions, how to balance study and life commitments, about research or extracurricular activities, and everything in between. 

CCS's top tweet: Robert Gillies' philanthropic work

We pinned this tweet to the top of @CCSMonash Twitter page feed, and it was seen by over 1000 viewers. Good luck to Robert Gillies for the work with homeless people - too many of them for a wealthy, first world country. Follow his work at @Homelessofmelb. See the original tweet at https://twitter.com/CCSMonash/status/659841821825044480

Alfred medical student wins Victorian Young Australian of the Year 2016

Robbie Gillies, winner of Victorian Young Australian
of the Year 2016

Congratulations to medical student Robbie Gillies for winning the 2016 Victorian Young Australian of the Year 2016 Award! Robbie was nominated as a finalist for the Victorian Young Australian of the Year 2016 on 8 October. The state winners were announced on 28 October 2015. See his acceptance speech.

Robbie was one of CCS's 3rd year Alfred medical students and also the New Mentorship program coordinator. He will be speaking to the 2016 3rd year medical students on 9 February 2016.

3rd year MBBS students compete in inaugural PBL Feud Championships

The PBL Feud Champions of 2015 - Group 1, along with
the host Fiona Foley and A/Prof. Laila Rotstein

3rd Year Central Clinical School medical students at the Alfred have competed in the first annual PBL Feud Championships, held in May 2015. 14 groups started the competition, a creation of A/Prof. Laila Rotstein based loosely on Family Feud. Contestants fought it out across 2 weeks to reveal responses to PBL-based questions generated by Dr. Kah Peck and A/Prof. Laila Rotstein, trying to avoid the dreaded and noisy “X”. It was a great opportunity for the students to revise the material that they have been covering and there was some healthy competition going on! Of course, there can be only one winner and Group 1 took out the honors, winning prizes and bragging rights! See more about the Alfred based medical undergraduate program.

Professor Ruth Salom to lead pathology teaching at CCS

Professor Ruth Salom

Professor Ruth Salom has recently joined CCS on a part time basis to oversight the MBBS pathology teaching. Ruth is a Monash MBBS graduate and knows Monash and the Alfred well. She has over 20 years’ experience in working in health as a pathologist, a researcher and a health and life science manager. From 2008-2012 she was the Inaugural Executive Director of SA Pathology, an organization of 2000 staff and a budget of $300M. Ruth was also responsible for major research initiatives including the formation of the Centre of Cancer Biology and the establishment of the South Australian Genomics Facility. We look forward to Ruth's vast industry and commercial experience being applied in the Monash environment. For more detail see Ruth's LinkedIn profile.

Video: Ben Lewis, BMedSc(Hons) student, explains how he got interested in research

Benjamin Lewis is an MBBS student, doing the Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) year in 2013. He describes how he got interested in the research project and why he chose to study with Central Clinical School. His research interest is in schizophrenia and the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCPESVxxDs

Video: Shivani Bhatt answers the question, 'Why BMedSc(Hons)?'

 Shivani Bhatt is an MBBS student, doing the Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) year in 2013. Shivani's parents came from Uganda, and she has a strong sense of the global interconnections which affect us all. She describes how she got interested in her research project and why she chose to study with Central Clinical School. Shivani's research topic is "The role of chronic hypoxia and inflammation on pulmonary vascular remodelling and the pulmonary parenchyma in diffuse parenchymal lung disease." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNFOEZhSsyA