Bendigo Medicine Placements
Year 2
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
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.
Year 4C
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:
- Goldfields (Maryborough, Castlemaine, Kyneton)
- Highlands (Woodend, Gisborne)
- Murray (Swan Hill)
Year 5D
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:
- Aged care
- Emergency medicine (Acute Care)
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Scholarly Intensive Placement (research focused)
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:
- Anaesthetics
- Clinical Education and Clinical Simulation Teaching
- Intensive care medicine
- Oncology
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
- Palliative Care
- Renal
- Urology
Postgraduate medical training
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.