Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

General

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences of the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

is the University’s largest and most diverse faculty, consisting of 52 schools, departments and centres.

In line with the Melbourne Model

Melbourne Model

The Melbourne Model is a radical restructuring of the undergraduate curriculum of the University of Melbourne, located in Victoria, Australia, one of the country's richest universities...

, the Faculty provides the Bachelor of Biomedicine, a three-year, full-time degree that offers 12 majors across a broad range of biomedical disciplines. Further study is provided by the Faculty’s four graduate schools. Each school offers study and research opportunities for graduates and experienced practitioners.

Faculty Structure

Melbourne Medical School with 6 clinical schools:
- Austin Hospital
- Royal Melbourne Hospital
- St Vincent's Hospital
- Northern Health
- Western Health
- Rural Clinical School with campuses at Ballarat, Shepparton and Wangaratta.
Melbourne Dental School
Melbourne School of Population Health
Melbourne School of Health Sciences encompassing:

Fast Facts

The University of Melbourne educates more health professionals, graduates more research and higher degree students and attracts more nationally competitive funding than any other Australian university
Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne achieved the maximum world rating in the Excellence in Research for Australia Report
The new Doctor of Medicine (MD) is the only Australian professional entry level medical program, yet has been condemned by the Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA), the peak representative body of Australia's 16,000 medical students, as it devalues other medical degrees in Australia, and circumvents the ban on undergraduate Domestic Full-Fee places at Australian public universities.
The Melbourne Medical School also contains one of the largest departments of psychology in Australia offering a diversity of undergraduate and postgraduate programs unrivalled in this country
The new Doctor of Physiotherapy is Australia’s first three-year entry to practice graduate level program
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is the University of Melbourne’s largest faculty

History

The University of Melbourne’s School of Medicine was founded in 1862 and had a humble beginning. It’s first Professor, George Halford, made do with inadequate conditions, taught few students and even conducted the first dissection in the back shed of his Carlton home in 1863. By Federation in 1901, the school had become the Faculty of Medicine.

When the Murray Committee reported in 1956 on the inadequacies of the nation's tertiary education sector, the mood to change medical education accelerated. The University was central to the revolution to medicalise society through the expansion of medical services. During the decades to follow, the University was the only tertiary institution to mentor the development of a number of medical institutions in South-East Asia and here in Victoria, the Monash Medical School.

In 1989 the University's Faculty of Dental Science amalgamated with Medicine to become the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and later expanded again to include Physiotherapy, Psychology and Nursing. It was, and continues to be today, the largest educational institution for health professionals in Australia.

The University established Australia's first School of Population Health in 2001 and then the School of Rural Health in 2002.

Today, the faculty also includes the School of Social Work (having moved from the Faculty of Arts) and the Nossal Institute for Global Health.

Adapted from Humanity's Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne.

List of Faculty Deans

Below is a list of the Faculty deans from 1876 to the present:

1876 - 1886 George Britton Halford
George Britton Halford
George Britton Halford was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine.- Background :...
1886 - 1889 Harry Brookes Allen
Harry Brookes Allen
Sir Harry Brookes Allen was a noted Australian pathologist.-Education:Harry Brookes Allen was born at Geelong, Victoria, the son of Thomas Watts Allen. He was educated at Flinders School, Geelong, and in 1869–70 at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School...
1890 - 1896 George Britton Halford
George Britton Halford
George Britton Halford was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine.- Background :...
1897 - 1924 Harry Brookes Allen
Harry Brookes Allen
Sir Harry Brookes Allen was a noted Australian pathologist.-Education:Harry Brookes Allen was born at Geelong, Victoria, the son of Thomas Watts Allen. He was educated at Flinders School, Geelong, and in 1869–70 at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School...
1925 - 1929 Richard James Arthur Berry
1929 - 1938 William Alexander Osborne
1939 - 1943 Peter MacCallum
Peter MacCallum
Sir Peter MacCallum MC was a Scottish-born Australian oncologist and the co-founder and eponym of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne....
1944 - 1945 Robert Marshall Allan
1946 Roy Douglas Wright
Roy Douglas Wright
Sir Roy Douglas Wright AK was an Australian physiologist, known to his colleagues as "Pansy Wright".He was born in Central Castra, Tasmania. He became Professor of Physiology at the University of Melbourne from 1939 to 1971 and was later Chancellor of the University from 1980 to 1989...
1947 - 1949 Peter MacCallum
Peter MacCallum
Sir Peter MacCallum MC was a Scottish-born Australian oncologist and the co-founder and eponym of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne....
1950 - 1952 Roy Douglas Wright
Roy Douglas Wright
Sir Roy Douglas Wright AK was an Australian physiologist, known to his colleagues as "Pansy Wright".He was born in Central Castra, Tasmania. He became Professor of Physiology at the University of Melbourne from 1939 to 1971 and was later Chancellor of the University from 1980 to 1989...
1953 - 1971 Sydney Sunderland
1971 - 1977 Sydney Lance Townsend
1978 - 1985 David Geoffrey Penington
1986 - 1995 Graeme Bruce Ryan
1995 - 1997 Gordon James Aitken Clunie
1998 - 2003 Richard Graeme Larkins
Richard Larkins
Professor Richard Graeme Larkins AO was the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from 2003 until June 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in medicine, scientific research and academic management....
2003 – present James Alexander Angus

Research

The University of Melbourne was ranked in the top 20 in the world in clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects by the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The Faculty is highly active with over 1400 researchers in eight broad research domains encompassing the breadth of medicine, dentistry and the health sciences. To get information about this extensive resource of experts, the Faculty has developed a tool to "Find a researcher".

Partner institutions and centres

The Faculty is centred in one of Australia's most concentrated precincts of biomedical research. Students have unrivalled access to clinical training and research opportunities with medical research institutes, world class tertiary hospitals and community based services.

Research Institutes

Centres

Major Projects

Through extensive partnerships, the Faculty is involved in a range of major new developments, including the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Western Centre for Health Research and Education, the Peter Doherty Institute and the Melbourne Brain Centre.

Student Associations

The Faculty has an active student body that includes many student associations.

University Melbourne Medical Students Society (UMMSS)
[Biomedical Students Society - find them on Facebook
Student Welfare Outreach Team (SWOT)
Voluntary Students Aid Program (VSAP)
Rural Outreach
Apollo Music Society
Nursing and Social Work Students' Society
Moovin' Health: Rural Health Student Society
Melbourne University Psychology Association
Physiotherapy Students' Society

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