Central Clinical School - Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA)
Location
The RPAH clinical school is on the Missenden Road side of the Sydney University campus in Camperdown. It is only 4 km from the centre of Sydney and is 5 minutes walk from King Street, Newtown's main restaurant district.
Other hospitals where rotations and attachments may be held (from 3rd year onwards):
Geriatrics and General Practice
Balmain Hospital
Booth Street
Balmain
General Medicine and General Surgery
Canterbury Hospital
Canterbury Road
Campsie
Psychiatry
Rozelle Hospital
Corner of Church and Glover Sts
Leichhardt
Rheumatology and Orthopaedic Departments
Rachael Foster Hospital
150 Pitt Street
Redfern
Getting there
Trains
Inner West Line
- Can get off at Macdonaldtown station for a 5 minute walk
- Can get off at Newtown Station for a 10 minute walk
All other lines
- Can get off at Redfern and have a 20 minute walk
Buses
Direct bus is 412 - to Parramatta Road and 5 minute walk
413, 435, 436, 437, 438, 440, 461, 480, 481 - to King Street Newtown and 5 minute walk
Any bus to Inner West - 422, 423, 426, 428, 352
or 370 from Coogee or Leichhardt
Driving
Getting parking at the hospital itself is very difficult. However, parking on the university campus is available and just as close.
Student facilities
- Brand new common room
- Brand new library
- Computer lab with modern facilities - internet access and printing
- An excellent skills lab with equipment and models for practicing clinical skills
Our strengths
- The clinical school staff are friendly and they value student feedback;
- Students benefit from having tutors from a wide variety of medical specialties;
- Numerous Clinical Attachments to choose from for 3rd year;
- Some areas of interest that RPA is strong in, that may interest students, are:
* Drug and alcohol
* General Medicine
* Respiratory and Sleep
* Oncology (The Sydney Cancer Center)
* Immunology
* Transplant
* Dermatology
* Obstetrics
RPA has two main strengths: the experience of its staff, and the fact that a lot of really unusual patients get referred there. The staff know their stuff and are generally quite happy to pass knowledge on to students. The unusual patients mean that obscure diseases from textbooks become memorable. You'll probably see more patients with something like Wegener's granulomatosis at RPA than in the rest of your medical career.
Key contacts
Central Clinical School web site
www.central.med.usyd.edu.au
Contact for administrative enquiries
Executive Officer of Royal Prince Alfred Hopsital (RPA), Central Clinical School
Ms Annette Burgess
Phone: +61 2 9515 8172
Fax: +61 2 9515 8173
Email:
Contact for academic enquiries
Associate Dean of Central Clinical SchoolProfessor Craig Mellis
Phone: +61 2 9351 7177
Fax: +61 2 9036 5474
Email: