Western Clinical School
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| Westmead Hospital |
Professor David Harris
Head of School, Western Clinical School
The Western Clinical School is based in the Sydney West Area Health Service which serves a local population of about one and a half million. The population is younger than average and of diverse social and ethnic background, including many immigrant groups and the Daruk Aboriginal community.
Westmead, a large and long-established teaching hospital (750 beds), was planned and built as the major referral centre for Western Sydney. Opened in 1978, it provides a full range of general services together with highly specialised units delivering state-wide or national services. Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Auburn, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains and Lithgow are smaller district general hospitals which participate in clinical teaching.
Westmead Hospital is 26 km west of the Sydney central business district, situated on the edge of Parramatta Park. Frequent commuter and suburban trains link the University (Redfern Station) with Westmead Hospital (Westmead Station - 30 minute journey), while the M4 Motorway provides a motor link between the various teaching sites. Low cost live-in accommodation is available for students.
Western Clinical School has always been a part of the modern revolution in medical training and our facilities and philosophy have always fostered a long and strong commitment to teaching, research and patient care. Ever since the establishment of the Western Clinical School, it has been a place of growth, innovation and enthusiasm. 'Western' has the great advantage of two teaching hospitals with quite different orientation and philosophies; both are community tertiary referral hospitals.
Westmead Hospital is one of the largest teaching conglomerates and is located in the largest Health Care Campus in the Southern Hemisphere. Westmead Hospital, situated in the geographic heart of Australia's largest city, has a brief but remarkable past, an impressive present, and a significant national and international presence with unlimited potential. Westmead provides mostly adult medical services. Paediatric teaching is carried out at the Children's Hospital at Westmead next door linked to Westmead Hospital by an enclosed walkway. This enables students to take advantage of a wide range of medical and surgical problems occurring in all age groups.
- Addiction Medicine
- Anaesthesia
- Clinical Ophthalmology & Eye Health
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- General Practice
- Genetic Medicine
- Imaging
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Medicine
- Medicine (including Infectious Diseases & Immunology)
- Molecular and Microbial Biosciences
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Psychological Medicine
- Public Health
- Surgery
- Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research
- Institute for Immunology and Allergy Research
- NSW Breast Cancer Institute
- Westmead Millennium Institute & Research Centres
Western Clinical School
C24 - Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Professor David Harris, Associate Dean
Email: dch@med.usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9845 8938
Karen Garlan, Executive Officer
Email: kgarlan@med.usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9845 7661
Fax: +61 2 9891 3749