Cabrini Institute - Education
The Cabrini Clinical School was established to coordinate, manage and promote clinical education and research within Cabrini Health.
Cabrini Health is an active participant in undergraduate and post-graduate education in nursing, medicine and allied health sciences. It has been seen as part of our Mission to support education in health care. This is supported in practical ways by many health professionals within Cabrini Health and by the various Institute education grants to nurses
There are undergraduate students at Cabrini Health in the disciplines of radiography, nuclear medicine, nursing, dietetics and medicine. There are postgraduate students in multiple specialty areas of nursing, fellows in radiology, a medical registrar, registrar in haematology (a jointed position with Peter MacCallum), a surgical registrar and surgical research fellow, postgraduate courses in a variety of medical fields and Masters and PhD students within the academic departments of Nursing and Clinical Epidemiology.
Over 200 undergraduate student nurses come through Cabrini clinical placements each year. The majority of these are from Deakin University and Australian Catholic University. Cabrini Health also takes 25 Graduate Year Nurses for that important transition year following graduation. Cabrini Health is now accepted as a teaching hospital within the private sector, with the hospital Education Department responsible for the nursing education program.
Undergraduate Medical Students
Within the Institute, medical education is a major priority area.
In 2006, Cabrini became a Regional Clinical School of the Monash University
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Cabrini with the Bayside
Hospitals (Alfred, Sandringham and Caulfield) and Box Hill, make up the Central
and Eastern Clinical School.
Cabrini has been involved in the Monash undergraduate teaching program
since the early 1980’s. Until 2005, students rotated through Cabrini
for 6-8 week terms. In 2006 Cabrini Health commenced a new medical student
program as part of the Monash University new 5 year curriculum. Twelve
3rd Year Monash University Medical students came to Cabrini for a 12 month
placement. They alternated 6 months of Medicine and 6 months of Surgery, spending
a full academic year at Cabrini. This was the first time a group
of medical students viewed Cabrini as their principal clinical school and
not just a rotation from a major teaching hospital.
Following the successful implementation of the third year medical student program at Cabrini in 2006 we welcomed the 2007 students at the beginning of February. This year we have 16 third year Monash University medical students for the whole of the year for their medicine and surgery core teaching. A/Professors Simon Woods (Clinical Dean) and Michele Levinson have developed a full teaching program for the students. The program provides a mixture of bedside and workshop-based teaching across the whole spectrum of medicine. The Cabrini program has a strong emphasis on professional behaviour and role modelling for medical practice. The program succeeds because of the support of the Cabrini medical specialist staff in all aspects of the teaching.
