Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (MD)
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Year 2 medical students are offered the opportunity to take part in a one-week rural placement as part of the Monash MD program. Placements occur during Semesters 1 and 2.
If you complete your Year 2 placement in Bendigo, your week will be spent shadowing a local GP, touring Bendigo Health and getting a taste of what the region has to offer.
Year 3B is your first year of hospital-based training. In Bendigo, this will be based at Bendigo Health.
Over the academic year (36 weeks), medical students undertake blocks of clinical rotations, as well as learning activities at Monash Rural Health Bendigo - such as clinical skill workshops and small group tutorials.
Explore a day in the life of a 3B medical student in Bendigo.
In Bendigo, 4C students will undertake one 18-week regional hospital placement at Bendigo Health in either Semester 1 or 2. This placement includes rotations in obstetrics and gynaecology, children's health and psychiatry.
4C medical students will also undertake one 18-week rural practice community rotation, where you will be placed in a general practice clinic. These rotations are in:
Year 5D is structured as a series of six 6-week clinical rotations, transitioning you into the clinical workplace as a trainee intern. Students are able to undertake either a full year or one semester in Bendigo.
5D core rotations available in Bendigo are:
Scholarly Intensive Placements in Bendigo are based at either Bendigo Health in one of the hospital’s units, or at Monash Rural Health Bendigo with leading rural health researchers.
5D speciality rotations available in Bendigo are:
The North West Victoria Regional Training Hub supports medical students and junior doctors to live, work and train in Bendigo and across north west Victoria in the early stages of their career.
Contact the Hub to learn about what training pathways are available in Bendigo, and how they can help you reach your career goals.
Nursing, pharmacy and allied health
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There is a range of placement opportunities across our rural sites for nursing, allied health and pharmacy students. We support students from a range of health disciplines and universities to undertake their clinical or fieldwork placements within communities across the Loddon Mallee region.
If you would like to go to Bendigo, please speak about this with your placement coordinator.
"I have fallen in love with Bendigo, and I would love to take a job there after I graduate. Rural work is such a different experience compared to being in a city. Valuable lessons are learned when out rural and they will stay with you for the rest of your career."
Eliza Kidder
Bachelor of Paramedicine 2022
Research degrees
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At Monash Rural Health in Bendigo, you have the option to undertake research degrees specialising in rural health.
If you want to add a research component to your Doctor of Medicine or Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree, Monash Rural Health offers a one-year honours program exploring clinical or data-driven projects.
Monash Rural Health supports and assists graduate research students to undertake either a PhD or Masters by Research in a relevant topic of their choosing.
Simulation learning
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Simulation learning plays a large part in clinical skills development. Our Bendigo site has well-equipped clinical skills labs, staffed by experienced clinicians and simulation lecturers. Teaching aids range from part-task trainers right through to simulated wards with sophisticated life-size mannekins.
See the Bendigo skills lab.
“Bendigo has an incredibly hands on learning style when it comes to learning the practical skills of being a doctor, which has by far been the most engaging, daunting, and fun part of our learning this year. From our first practice of a new skill in the clinical skills lab to trying it for the first time on a patient, learning new skills and growing more confident has definitely been a highlight this year."
Isabelle Shelton
3B Bendigo, 2021