Undergraduate Medical Education

Welcome to the Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals Clinical School at Western Health. This site is available for current and future medical students - to help you find your way around at Western Health. We hope that you will find your experience here friendly, supportive and clinically interesting.

 Further information for students doing clinical experience at Western Health. (146KB)

About the West

  • Our catchment is the most culturally diverse community in Victoria - over 100 different languages are spoken here.
  • Our catchment has one of the highest birth rates in the nation.
  • People in our region have the highest level of underlying illness in metropolitan Melbourne
  • Our catchment is the most rapidly expanding and aging community in Victoria.
  • Western Health is planning to create Melbourne's leading acute teaching hospital and ambulatory care centre based on the Sunshine Hospital site
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