Look inside Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT
Take a look at our world-class learning, training,and research spaces that include nursing wards, a virtual radiotherapy treatment room, dispensaries, and our health sciences teaching clinic.
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Health sciences clinic
Our health sciences clinic provides critical clinical training for students from Chinese medicine, Chiropractic, Osteopathy,and Psychology courses to meet registration requirements. Based at Uni Hill, Bundoora, the clinic provides high-quality services to the public at a reduced cost, while giving final year students a chance to put their studies into practice.
Meet Professor Charlie Xue
Professor Xue is a World Health Organization consultant, and chairs the National Chinese Medicine Board of Australia. His current focus is on evidence-based integrative healthcare research to assess and correlate the efficiency of Chinese medicine treatments. This is achieved by establishing clinical trials to see whether these practices meet the requirements for developing new, modern therapeutics.
Meet Jacqueline – Graduate Diploma in Child and Family Health Nursing
Jacqueline Rosler is pursuing her passion for helping families live healthily after completing a Graduate Diploma in Child and Family Health Nursing.
“My dream job is to work as a maternal and child health nurse in my own centre. I love what I do because I get to help children and families reach their potential.”
Health and biomedical sciences
RMIT health and biomedical students reveal why they love what they do, as well as the highlights, the challenges and some helpful advice for future students.
Health teaching takes a Dotty turn
Dr Sonja Cleary's alter ego is Dotty: an elderly lady with a variety of health issues who visits students in class to give them experience of dealing with patients in a simulated health clinic situation.
"When I come in as Dotty, it gives students an opportunity to reflect on how their lectures, clinical labs, and tutorials can be translated to a real-life patient," Cleary said.
"Students are often astonished that she is not a real person, and they engage with her openly."
Before going out into the real world of client or patient care, students from a range of disciplines get to hone their approach on Dotty, with her myriad ailments and difficult temperament.