St George Hospital
From Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive
St George Hospital was a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney between 1963 and 1967. Founded in 1892 as The St George Cottage Hospital with eight beds, it became a nurses’ training school in 1909. The Hospital was enlarged in 1918 and its scope and facilities were further extended in 1924, again during the decade of the thirties, and once again in 1966.
Fourth-year students from the University of Sydney started at the Hospital in 1963. An academic presence at the Hospital was represented in the person of Associate Professor James McRae, who also served as student supervisor. The ‘old’ clinical school was housed in the refurbished Medical Superintendent’s residence, a building that dated back to 1878. A new, well-equipped clinical school was completed in 1967, the year in which St George became a teaching hospital for the newly created Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Special arrangements were made for the last group of Sydney students to complete their final year at St George, harmoniously sharing the clinical facilities with fourth-year students from the University of New South Wales in what they described as a unique experience.
Although there were only three groups of students from the University of Sydney to complete their clinical years at St George, the Hospital provided much needed facilities and clinical instruction at a time of considerable stress in terms of student numbers. St George remains a teaching hospital for the University of New South Wales.
Source: Ann Jervie Sefton, "St George Hospital" in Young J, Sefton A and Webb N, Centenary Book of the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine. Sydney University Press, Sydney