Bachelor of Medical Science in Bendigo

Only 90 minutes from Melbourne by train or car, Bendigo has a lot to offer academically and socially. With a close-knit medical community and a strong undergraduate medical student presence, it is easy to develop good professional and friendship networks.

Research opportunities

Your research project need not be limited to the formal proposals published on the Bachelor of Medical Science web site. Bendigo provides opportunities in a wide range of fields, for example:

Psychiatry (child, adolescent, adult, and aged persons)

General Medicine

Surgery

Ophthalmology

Emergency Medicine

Rehabilitation Medicine

Paediatrics

General Practice

If you have a research proposal or particular interest you would like to pursue, contact the Bendigo Regional Clinical School B Med Sci Coordinator, Dr Pamela Snow. Dr Snow can help you assess the feasibility of the proposal and create a local supervision team. For Bendigo projects, Dr Snow will normally be the Principle Supervisor, providing support with academic writing, methodological matters, ethics applications, and the administrative aspects of your project.

Library support

Bendigo Regional Clinical School houses the Bendigo Health library at its Mercy St premises. The library is open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm. Monash students have assess via swipe card to the library after hours. The Bendigo Health librarian is available during the library's open hours to assist students. As a Monash student you of course have continued access to the university library and data-bases through MUSO.

Past Projects

2009 Dujon Fuzzard
Retinal thickness changes post cataract extraction

2008 Michael Jamieson
Fellow eye effect with Ranibizumab for age-related macular degeneration
Michael won the Ophthalmology Prize ( across both Monash and the Univeristy of Melbourne in 2009, and has successfully published a journal out of his B med Sci project )