It is a pleasure to welcome you to the School of Medicine, Sydney.
We offer a challenging, innovative, four year graduate entry course and admission is highly competitive for the 112 positions available in each annual intake.
The preclinical phase – first two years—are built on a problem-based learning format with integrated teaching across four learning domains. These are Basic and Clinical Sciences, Communication and Clinical Skills, Personal and Professional Development and Population and Public Health. In addition students participate in dynamic clinical skills teaching sessions each week across the two pre-clinical years.
All students study units in Ethics, Philosophy and Theology through the Core Curriculum. These units provide context and relevance to the personal vocation of Medicine, and help students appreciate the role and responsibilities of the doctor in our society. In the clinical phase years three and four, students are immersed in clinical teaching which focuses on “learning at the bedside”. Students rotate through a range of clinical attachments in hospitals and other health care facilities, under the supervision of a diverse range of clinical academics: this learning is supported by specific course content delivered one day a week in the ‘back to base’ format.
Students experience a personalised approach, small-group teaching and derive great benefit and support from the Notre Dame emphasis on pastoral care, throughout their entire journey.
Our aim is to produce academically excellent, ethical doctors; we are confident that this course will permit fulfilment of that Mission.
