The University of Sydney Central Clinical School supports a wide range of teaching activities for medicine students across the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, Sydney Eye Hospital and Canterbury Hospital.
Our administration is primarily based at the Susan Wakil Health Building and coordinate all aspects of teaching, medical placements and electives in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and its associated partners.
Research activities are also supplemented by our affiliation with a large number of external research units and institutes across the Faculty of Medicine and Health, covering a diverse range of disciplines and research areas.
Student placements are major components of most of our health courses and integral to gaining your professional accreditation. In most courses, course-required placements are embedded from the first year and increase as you progress in your degree.
Elective placements are also offered through our clinical schools to internal and external medical students in their final year of study who wish to expand their knowledge in a specialty area or across a variety of clinical settings.
Our researchers are dedicated to improving health through excellence in research, creating new knowledge and fostering innovation and research at the highest level.
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The Central Clinical School primarily teaches out of four hospitals: the Royal Prince Alfred, Sydney Eye School, Canterbury Hospital and Strathfield Private Hospital.
Located in Camperdown, the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) is the main teaching hospital of the Central Clinical School. It is an institution with a rich heritage in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in Australia. Because of the close proximity to the main campus of the University, the clinical school at RPA was the medical program’s first clinical school, established soon after the Sydney Medical School opened in 1883.
The clinical school at RPA offers a huge scope of clinical exposure to common and rare chronic medical illnesses. This includes acute illness and trauma and the full range of surgical conditions, with patients ranging across all age groups, from pre-term newborns to the elderly. Many of the clinical teachers at RPA are national and international leaders in their respective fields of medicine.
For basic clinical skills training, the clinical school at RPA has comprehensive clinical skills laboratories, including facilities for the development of advanced levels of consultative skills and surgical procedural skills training.
The precincts of RPA have the largest concentration in Australia of leading medical research institutes – including:
Sydney Eye Hospital is Australia's oldest hospital and dates from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. This historic facility has been located in Macquarie Street since 1816 and is steeped in history with a legacy of nursing and medical firsts to its credit.
Today, Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospitals' modern facilities and professional staff provide a strong blend of general and specialist medical services for the public.
The Sydney Eye Hospital houses the Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health and the Save Sight Institute, and accommodates the largest training program in Australia for the training of ophthalmologists.
Canterbury Hospital is a large district hospital (approximately 200 beds) within the Central Clinical School. Canterbury Hospital has an active teaching program in general medicine, general surgery, and paediatrics, and about one third to one-quarter of our students will spend some time at Canterbury.
Strathfield Private Hospital is a teaching hospital for the University of Sydney that has various facilities encompassing of 84 beds, seven operating theatres, an endoscopy suite, a cardiac catheterisation lab, a 10 bed intensive care unit and a day surgery unit. It also has onsite radiology, pathology, and specialist consulting suites.
There are a number of opportunities available to deliver teaching into the medical program at the Central Clinical School.
Please refer to our dedicated information page for further information.
Professor Stephen Twigg, Head of Central Clinical School
For general education support, please contact the Education Support team: centralcs.education-support@sydney.edu.au
Phone
+61 2 9351 9745
Mailing address
Level 6 West
D18 Susan Wakil Health Building
Western Avenue
Camperdown NSW 2006
