Health & Biomedicine
The College of Health and Biomedicine is committed to helping you achieve your goals. Our innovative courses, flexible pathways and hands-on approach to teaching, learning and research provide you with relevant experience that prepares you for the real world.
We expect our student community to flourish as a result of our customisation of technology-enhanced learning and our strong partnerships with the health care industry. We have a strong commitment to internationalisation of the curriculum to enable students to gain international experience, and we also host off-shore students.
The College operates at the St Albans campus which is the University's Health Hub.
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Courses
Our qualified Academics are committed to providing quality education and the latest training in the following course areas:
- Aged care
- Ambulance (Vocational Education/TAFE)
- Beauty Therapy
- Biomedical Science
- Clinical Sciences - Osteopathy
- Community Care
- Dermal Therapies
- Dietetics
- Diploma of Nursing
- Health Science - Paramedic
- Health Science Paramedic, Paramedic Conversion
- Midwifery (accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia)
- Nursing (accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia)
- Nutritional Therapy
- Nutrition, Food and Health Science
- Science/Psychology (double degree)
The School operates at St Albans, Werribee, City (Flinders Lane and Queen), Footscray Nicholson, and Sunshine Hospital campuses.
Learning in the Workplace and Community (LiWC)
Our College is committed to ensuring that LiWC is embedded in our courses to enhance the student experience and enable students to become work, future and career ready.
Clinical learning and placement
Clinical learning is an important and compulsory part of Dermal Therapy, Dietetics, Midwifery, Nursing, Osteopathy, and Paramedicine courses accredited by the relevant accrediting authorities.
Nursing flexible clinical model
Our nursing flexible clinical model is an innovative program for nursing students designed to enhance your clinical learning experience, and offer you opportunities to:
- experience the true nature and challenges of contemporary nursing practice
- work alongside expert clinicians
- enjoy positive, and supportive clinical learning environments across the spectrum of nursing specialities.
Students are required to complete 100% of their clinical learning hours to be eligible for a certificate of completion and registration. For further information, visit the Clinical learning office.
Paramedic clinical placement
Your paramedic clinical placement is your introduction to the responsibilities and experiences of the ambulance paramedic.
Health service clinics
The College provides learning, teaching, research and practice facilities for the next generation of health professionals through our VU Health Service Clinics, industry based projects and simulation laboratories.
College simulation labs
Our students participate in simulation activities each year in their undergraduate course. The use of simulation learning in the classroom enables the student to gain exposure to a range of situations that they may not see in clinical experience. This provides the student with the opportunity to practice their skills in a safe environment.
With state-of-the-art technology, our nursing and paramedic laboratory facilities are designed to simulate a hospital environment. Our nursing simulation labs enable video recording from fixed cameras with live video streaming capabilities for greater student participation in learning.
College Research
Our key research groups focus on world-class research and development translating innovation in experimental medicine into positive health outcome for the community, assisting them to meet challenges both locally and globally.
Contact us
Find academic and administrative staff members in the College staff list, or search for our academic experts in an industry or subject of interest.
Phone: +61 3 9919 2487
Fax: +61 3 9919 2465
Email: healthbiomedicine.college@vu.edu.au
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