The University of Sydney Westmead Clinical School is taught out of the Westmead Precinct – one of the largest teaching amalgamations in the Southern Hemisphere.
With a patient population of 1.5 million, the Westmead Clinical School is the largest of its kind at the University. The great number and diversity of people within the Sydney West Area serves to enrich medical student training and experiences.
We aim to provide students with comprehensive clinical training, and expose them to a wide range of medical and surgical health problems across all ages given our proximity to the Children's Hospital at Westmead.
We also have a large network of local primary care facilities and community health services which also support teaching through our community rotations.
Student placements are major components of most of our health courses and integral to gaining your professional accreditation. In most courses, course-required placements are embedded from the first year and increase as you progress in your degree.
Elective placements are also offered through our clinical schools to internal and external medical students in their final year of study who wish to expand their knowledge in a specialty area or across a variety of clinical settings.
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The Westmead Clinical School primarily teaches out of Westmead Hospital. We also have connections with the following hospitals and centres:
Tutoring opportunities are available throughout all years of the medical program.
In Stages 1 and 2, tutors teach skills like medical history taking, procedural skills, communication and physical examination skills at the bedside.
Upon advancing to Stage 3, tutors are also required in other activities such as clinical reasoning sessions, bedside tutorials, ethical discussions, online work and assessment.
Although teaching in the Doctor of Medicine (MD) is voluntary, there are several professional and collegiate benefits.
Tutors become part of the collaborative clinical school environment and network, and may then take up the opportunity to apply for a Clinical Academic Title.
For more information contact the Westmead Clinical School Education Support team at westmeadcs.education-support@sydney.edu.au.
Clinical Academic Titles
For more information on honorary titles, see provided resources:
The Westmead Clinical School teaches from Westmead Hospital. Our facilities include a Skills Lab supporting procedural skills training as well as dedicated simulation rooms.
Our Skills Lab is well-appointed for medical students doing procedural skills training. Majority of skills teaching for stages 1 and 2 is held in this lab, as well as some of the stage 3 sessions.
The lab is fully equipped with scrubbing sinks, skills/plastering supplies, an ECG machine, BP machine, defibrillator, optoscope, emergency trolley and collars etc.
The lab includes the following superior models: BLS models, lumbar puncture models, gynaecological models, catheter models, airway models, breast lump models and cannulation arms.
Our Simulated Learning Environment for Clinical Training (SiLECT) at Westmead is an educational space consisting of three large simulation rooms and two tutorial/debriefing rooms.
Our SiLECT team comprises a collaboration of highly skilled registrar and consultant anaesthetic and emergency physicians, senior nurse educators and clinical nurse consultants all committed to increasing patient safety and evidence based care.
The training is delivered using a variety of high/medium fidelity manikins, standardised patients and part task trainers. The training is delivered in both the SiLECT simulation space and in situ in the clinical environment in response to the goals of the training.
Our equipment caters to all speciality areas and includes two high fidelity SIMman 3G’s, a SIMmom with difficult birth capability, a SIM newbie, ALS manikin’s, part task trainers that focus on advanced skills such as central venous access, chest drains and difficult airway management.
Although many of the training and education sessions we provide are customised to individual needs or specialties we also run regular courses that include:
Phone
+61 427 378 993
Email
wcs.ea@sydney.edu.au
