Welcome to the School of Medicine, Fremantle

Professor Gavin Frost MB BS,MPH FRACMA FAFPHM FHKCCM(Hon) Dean Phone: (61 8) 9433 0288 Email: gavin.frost@nd.edu.au

Whether you are contemplating a career in medicine, or just looking at our website out of interest, you are most welcome.
Our School took its first cohort of students in 2005, and this year three groups of our graduates are providing excellent health care in hospitals throughout Australia.

The School aims to enrol 100 students each year, and with an attrition rate of less than 2% we expect to graduate all our students. Entry is only available to Australian and New Zealand citizens, and Australian permanent residents. All places are supported by the Commonwealth Government as Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs).

In 2009, the School achieved 4 year accreditation from the Australian Medical Council. This reflects greatly on the more than 100 committed clinicians, both on Campus and in hospitals (public and private) and hundreds of general practices throughout the state who contribute their knowledge and skills so willingly to our students.

Our four year course is fully integrated, with only one unit per year. Individual subjects are thus taught so that they are clinically relevant.

Problem based learning occupies the major part of the first two years, with basic and clinical sciences taught at Curtin University one day a week. Students are exposed to clinical practice with general practice placements in the first semester.

Our commitment to encouraging rural practice starts with our aim to enroll 25% of students from a rural background. In the first semester of 1st year, students spend a week with a family in the Wheatbelt, and in 2nd year, a week in the Kimberley region of WA. In 3rd year, one in four students spends the full year in the Rural Clinical School, jointly run with The University of Western Australia. All students spend at least 6 weeks in a rural or remote placement prior to graduation.

Ours is an exciting and challenging course-our commitment to social justice means that all students are required to give back to the community, and pastoral care for our students is an obligation we take seriously. Personal and professional development is also such an important element of our curriculum that it forms one of four encompassing domains; the others are basic & clinical sciences, population & preventive health and communication & clinical skills.

Both formative and summative assessments are provided throughout the course, with OSCE type assessments in every year.

We welcome enquiries – either direct to the School (medicine@nd.edu.au), or to the Prospective Students Office (future@nd.edu.au)

Professor Gavin Frost