Our teaching excellence
We maintain an ongoing program of educator professional development, retain a high proportion of lecturers with practical/clinical expertise, and conduct research that delivers evidence on the best ways to train medical and health professionals. All of this helps us deliver our curriculum in engaging ways that foster deep and practical understanding, and embeds job-readiness skills into our graduates.
Climbing the rankings
We’ve shown a significant upward trend in public health research and education across all major global University ranking systems over the last 10 years. Here’s a taste of our success:
| Global ranking by subject, by year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RANKING SYSTEM | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| QS (Life sciences and medicine) | 34 | 31 | 33 | 33 | 35 | 39 |
| THE (Clinical and health) | 31 | 29 | 32 | 34 | 31 | 42 |
| Shanghai (Public health) | 31 | 40 | 24 | 30 | 37 | 46 |
| US News (Public, environmental and occupational health) | 19 | 19 | 42 | 62 | 68 | N/A |
Medical Education and Quality Research (MERQ)
We run a dedicated program of pedagogical (teaching) research that contributes to the evidence base for best-practice health and medical teaching methods. This research explores the ways in which students learn, investigates graduate career pathways, evaluates teaching methods and programs, assesses new technologies that can be incorporated into medical teaching, and in recent times, has helped guide policies and practices to minimise learning disruption during enforced remote learning episodes.
Visit our MERQ team’s website here.
Job-readiness skills
Setting our students up for success with real-world experience and job-readiness skills like project management, communication, and stakeholder engagement is fundamental to their success. We offer a range of placement opportunities across industry, research and academia that allow our students to stretch their wings in a supported environment, and we’re constantly revising the range of Units we offer to reflect current workforce needs.
Teaching Associated Coaching
Our lecturing staff are drawn from people with real-world expertise in the medical and health sector, across research, program delivery and management, policy, advocacy, service leadership, communications and much more. We’ve invested in an award-winning, mandatory Teaching Associated Coaching program to bolster their teaching skills, which is now recognised as gold standard, serving as a basis for the program now being rolled out across the entire University.
Teaching and Learning Symposium
Our annual Teaching and Learning Symposium brings our lecturing staff together in a day-long workshop that explores emerging trends and issues relevant to University-level education. It helps ensure our teaching staff take a considered approach to their techniques, communication with students, and navigating relevant technologies like AI and social media.
