Macquarie University

Program

The Macquarie Doctor of Medicine is a 4-year graduate-entry medicine program that integrates applied medical sciences with clinical sciences, professionalism, research, and cultural responsiveness.

Studying medicine at Macquarie will allow you the freedom to explore your interests across a range of areas. You can follow your passions and tailor your course to your needs and interests. A course may comprise up to three zones: Foundation, Core, and Flexible.

• Foundation zone: Provides the foundational knowledge needed to succeed in the course if you are coming from a different disciplinary background.
• Core zone: Compulsory and covers the specific disciplinary or professional requirements of the course.
• Flexible zone: Provides breadth to the course and is comprised of elective units.

Early years of the program integrate clinical, scientific, professional, and cultural learning around cases—placing patient-centred care as a central concept in all learning. Later years of the program provide rich clinical learning opportunities with established clinical partners.

Global focus
The Macquarie MD incorporates extended international clinical experiences, including all-expenses-paid clinical rotations in Hyderabad, India. Macquarie University recognizes the need for future doctors to be globally engaged clinicians and believes in the significant benefits of these experiences: for the student, for health systems and for the health outcomes of local and global communities.

Clinical Placements
One of the unique features of the Macquarie Doctor of Medicine program is its core clinical placements, through which you will participate in clinical learning experiences in both Australia and India. Compulsory international clinical learning experiences include 21 weeks in Year 3 and up to 16 weeks in Year 4.

In years 3 and 4 students will be divided into two cohorts, A and B, for their clinical placements. While Cohort A will be in Australia, Cohort B will be in India and vice versa.

Compulsory international clinical learning experiences
Year 3 – 21 weeks
Year 4 – Up to 16 weeks

Macquarie’s Australian clinical learning environments

MQ Health
Is the first university-led integrated health campus in Australia. MQ Health brings together clinical care, teaching, and research to provide an integrated approach to holistic patient treatment, discovery and continuous learning.

Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD)
Has an established reputation for providing exceptional clinical training to medical students. Clinical experiences within NSLHD provide students with the full range of clinical presentations, opportunities to interact with patients and healthcare teams in inpatient and outpatient settings, and exposure to a high-volume and varied case mix. Students will primarily have clinical experiences at the Royal North Shore Hospital.

MindSpot Clinic
Australia’s first free online and telephone mental health clinic and is located on campus.

Macquarie’s international clinical learning environments

Apollo Hospitals Group
Recognized as the pioneer of private healthcare in India and the country’s first corporate hospital. Founded in 1983 with a 150-bed hospital by Dr Prathap C. Reddy, it now has 9,200 beds across 64 hospitals.

The mission of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises is to bring healthcare of international standards within the reach of every individual. Apollo is committed to the achievement and maintenance of excellence in education, research and healthcare, and has longstanding experience in the delivery of medical education and post-graduation training. Apollo clinicians are highly trained having affiliations with several international medical education organizations.

Apollo’s first Health City campus in Hyderabad offers an integrated healthcare model with 470 inpatient beds and extensive outpatient clinics, including Centres of Excellence for Heart Diseases, Cancer, Joint Diseases, Emergency, Renal Diseases, Neurosciences, Eye and Cosmetic Surgery.

Students may only attend their clinical placement if all placement compliance requirements have been completed prior to the placement occurring.

North America
Macquarie has an agreement with Ivy-League school Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and with Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, for students to do 4- to 8-week clinical rotations in North America in their fourth year. This placement is merit-based and not available to all students. Please contact OzTREKK for details.