Clinical Teaching Hospitals

The Faculty has established an extensive network of clinical teaching facilities, involving more than 40 hospitals in urban, coastal and rural New South Wales, and the Northern Territory. They provide students with the opportunity to experience a wide range of practice environments before graduation.

There are six major teaching hospitals in the greater Sydney region. These teaching hospitals are clustered into six Clinical Schools and the School of Rural Health which have dedicated teaching and learning resources and administrative staff, tutorial rooms and computer support. These Schools provide our medical students the opportunity to become familiar with the practice of medicine in the hospital environment. Even from the very beginning of Year 1, students participate in specially prepared patient-doctor theme sessions and clinical skills training sessions and commence interaction with real-life patients.

All students associate with one of the Clinical Schools from the first week of the medical program and the Schools are responsible for the coordination of their learning exercises, including lectures, skills development programs and tutorial activities. To find out more about the staff, facilities and student experiences in each of these Schools, visit our Schools within the Faculty page.