Look inside Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT
Take a look at our world-class learning, training and research spaces including nursing wards, virtual radio therapy treatment room, dispensary and our health sciences teaching clinic.
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Health sciences clinic
RMIT's Health Sciences Clinic provides critical clinical training for students from Chinese medicine, Chiropractic, Osteopathy and Psychology programs to meet registration requirements. Based at Uni Hill, Bundoora, the clinic provides high-quality services to the public at reduced-cost while giving final year students a chance to put their studies into practice.
Meet Professer 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 key Chinese medicine treatments that have been in practice for over 2000 years, by establishing clinical trials to see whether these practices meet the expected rigorous requirements in the development of any new therapeutics in a modern medical environment.
Meet Jacqueline – Graduate Diploma in Child and Family Health Nursing
Jacqueline Rosler is fulfilling her passion for helping families live happy and healthy lives 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 full 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
Dotty is Dr Sonja Cleary. "When I come in as Dotty it gives students an opportunity to reflect on how their more formal learning in 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 health disciplines, including nursing, Chinese medicine and osteopathy, get to hone their approach on Dotty, with her myriad ailments and difficult temperament.
Cleary's alter ego is an elderly lady with a variety of health issues who visits students in class at RMIT's School of Health and Biomedical Sciences to give them experience of dealing with patients in a simulated health clinic situation.