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Eastern Health Clinical School (EHCS) is one of the clinical schools of the Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. EHCS also partners with Deakin University for medical student teaching. EHCS represents the universities’ presence in Eastern Health, a large and rapidly-growing area of urban and outer Melbourne. Eastern Health covers 2816 square kilometres in which well over 750,000 people live. EHCS is closely integrated with Eastern Health’s clinical services throughout the region. EHCS offices are based at the Box Hill Hospital campus but EHCS also has a significant presence at Maroondah and Angliss hospitals.

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Eastern Health comprises seven main sites including hospitals (Box Hill, Maroondah, Angliss, Healesville); other sites (Wantirna Health, Peter James Centre and Yarra Ranges Health); State-wide services, such as Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, and Spectrum; and a large range of community facilities including rehabilitation, community health, residential care, and mental health.
EHCS also includes the Eastern Clinical Research Unit (ECRU), a vigorous unit supporting clinical trials across a range of disciplines. Basic and translational research occurs at the Box Hill campus and there are strong links with collaborators across Melbourne as well as nationally and internationally. Many of our clinicians and researchers are recognised as international leaders in their fields. Eastern Health was recognised in 2018 by Times Higher Education as the top-ranked hospital in Australia for research (one of only two Australian hospitals listed), and number 36 in the world, based on field-weighted citation index for a substantial number of academic publications.
Eastern Health has strong links with all the major universities and the Medical Student Program provides teaching in all aspects of the clinical years for medical students from Monash University and Deakin University. The program includes rotations in Medicine, Surgery, Musculoskeletal Medicine, Women’s Health, Children’s Health, Psychiatry, General Practice, Aged Care, Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine, and diverse medical and surgical subspecialties. The Eastern Health medical elective placements are managed by EHCS. Our teaching and research programs build on our expertise and HDR (higher degree research) opportunities exist for interested postgraduates.
In addition to supporting hundreds of clinical trials, our clinicians and researchers are involved in a range of clinical research activities, in collaboration with Eastern Health and other health and research institutes. Our research activities include studies in epidemiology, physiology, mental health and public health, which seek to improve the community’s health and well-being.
We undertake work in partnership with communities, community organisations, health and social services, to undertake high quality research to advance our understanding of the complex factors that contribute to health inequalities; and to inform efforts to create more just and equitable healthcare systems for all.
Person-Centred Research is a new directorate of Eastern Health Clinical School that undertakes research on self-reported health, with focus on the development, translation and cross-cultural adaptation, validation and implementation of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs).
Eastern Health Clinical School is home to a team of world leading clinicians and researchers, based at Turning Point and the Monash Addiction Research Centre, focused on understanding addiction and improving the lives of people adversely affected by substance use, gambling, gaming and internet dependence.
Turning Point is a national addiction treatment centre, dedicated to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment to people adversely affected by alcohol, drugs and gambling, integrated with world-leading research and education. Turning Point is part of the International Network of Drug Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centres for the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC), and a member of Harm Reduction International.
Eastern Health Clinical School is home to a team of world leading clinicians and researchers, based at Turning Point and the Monash Addiction Research Centre, focused on understanding addiction and improving the lives of people adversely affected by substance use, gambling, gaming and internet dependence.
MARC brings together world-leading expertise to address the harm done by alcohol, drugs and gambling and the related health and social problems.

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