Northern Clinical School
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| Royal North Shore Hospital |
The Northern Clinical School, centred at the Royal North Shore Hospital, encompasses most of the health facilities in the lower sector of the Northern Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service, serving a population of nearly one million people. The Northern Clinical School brings together a large group of expert medical teachers and a range of excellent clinical training facilities to create outstanding opportunities for clinical education. There are also leading research institutes based within the School, providing opportunities for students to participate in cutting edge research programs.
Royal North Shore Hospital is an acute general teaching referral hospital (660 beds). Every medical speciality is represented, and several clinical units provide state-wide referral services. A number of specialised clinical teaching centres have been established at the Hospital: the Northern Clinical Skills Centre, the Sydney Medical Simulation Centre, and the Pam McLean Cancer Communications Centre.
The Clinical School also encompasses four public Metropolitan Hospitals - Manly, Mona Vale, Ryde, and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai - each of which is closely associated with its surrounding community and has a busy Emergency Department. Also included in the School is the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, where the Rehabilitation Studies Unit and the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies are based. Three private hospitals, The Mater Hospital (Crows Nest), North Shore Private Hospital (St Leonards) and the Sydney Adventist Hospital (Wahroonga) increase the exposure of students to a range of clinical practice settings.
There has been considerable expansion in research activity in the School over recent years, particularly at Royal North Shore Hospital. The Kolling Institute, the oldest medical research intitute in New South Wales, now encompasses active research groups in the fields of molecular medicine (growth, cancer and genetics), renal medicine, perinatal medicine, cardiac technology and pain management. Other institutes cover bone and joint research and magnetic resonance in medicine (see links below), and there are also research units in hypertension and stroke, cardiology, haematology, hand surgery and many other areas. An extensive program for postgraduate research students exists, and there are more than 100 PhD or Research Masters students enrolled through the School. An active Postgraduate Research Students Society supports these students, and has its own common room and other facilities.
As an early component of the extensive redevelopment of Royal North Shore Hospital, a new Education and Research building is currently being planned. This will bring together the full range of the School’s teaching facilities, as well as all laboratory-based research and the Medical Library, into the one purpose-built structure.
Student facilities at the Royal North Shore Hospital currently include a separate Student Quarters, a Student Common Room, and open-access computing rooms. There is also a staff health club and swimming pool which students can use. Extra accommodation is available in hostels and home-stays in the vicinity of the Hospital, and at the other hospitals within the Area.
The Northern Clinical School is located 6 km from the centre of Sydney and is well served by public transport - St Leonards Station and bus stops are located on the Pacific Highway at the entrance to the Royal North Shore Hospital. All other Northern Clinical School hospitals are well served by bus or train transport from St Leonards.
- Addiction Medicine
- Anaesthesia
- Clinical Ophthalmology & Eye Health
- Dermatology
- General Practice (based at Hornsby Ku-ring-Gai Hospital)
- Genetic Medicine
- Imaging
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Medicine (including Immunology and Infectious Diseases)
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Paediatrics & Child Health
- Pathology
- Physiology
- Psychological Medicine
- Public Health
- Surgery
- Institute of Bone & Joint Research
- Kolling Institute of Medical Research
- Northern Clinical Skills Centre
- Pain Management & Research Institute
Northern Clinical School
Royal North Shore Hospital
St Leonards NSW 2065
Australia
Kay Worrell
Executive Officer
Phone: +61 2 9926 6190
Fax: +61 2 9926 6188
Email:
Professor Michael Field
Associate Dean
Phone: +61 2 9926 7097
Fax: +61 2 9438 2170
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