Medical Students - Summer Placement

Grampians Health Ballarat can offer experiences across a variety of clinical areas for elective placements requested by medical students. The clinical areas may include:

• Anaesthetics
• Emergency
• General Medicine
• General Surgery
• Intensive Care Unit
• Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• Paediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Specialised Medicine (Cardiology,  Oncology, Geriatrics, Rehabilitation)
• Specialised Surgery (Urology, ENT, Orthopaedics)

Exposure to working in a major regional hospital offers many opportunities for medical student including:

• More "hands on" experience
• The opportunity to work closely with interns, and
• The exposure to a wide variety of clinical problems across a broad spectrum of patients

Applications for open in March each year and close in June.
Placements are offered in August, with all paperwork to be submitted in September.
October second round offers will be made with all paperwork to be submitted within 2 weeks.

Our program is offered to students who have successfully completed their second year of study at an Australian University or International University

Placements are for a minimum of two weeks between Monday to Friday, hours will vary dependent on the department.

Placements will occur from the end of November through to the middle of January. Generally they are for two weeks.

• Student Placement Agreement (Signed by your University) and Schedule 3
• Medical Student Details Form and Internal consent
• Immunisation Checklist
• Police check within 12 months of commencement date
• Victorian Working with Children
• Statement of Privacy and Confidentiality
• 100 points of ID
• Photo (to be distributed to placement team)
• Any additional paperwork required by your university
• COVID - 19 Immunisation status
• Fit test (mask fitting) completed within last 12 months
• Hand Hygiene certificate completed within last 12 months

• Student Placement Agreement
• Schedule 3 (upon acceptance of offer, Supervisors name and contact details will be emailed out)
• Internal Consent
• Immunisation Checklist 
• Privacy, Confidentiality & Information Security Agreement
• Ballarat - Accommodation Request Form

These documents should be sent to Student Credentialing Officer, Chief Medical Office, Grampians Health, BRICC L4, PO Box 577, Ballarat, Victoria, 3353, or emailed to medstudent@bhs.org.au 

Accommodation may be available through the Melbourne University Rural Clinical School, please contact drh-accommodation@unimelb.edu.au for further details.
Grampians Health Ballarat also has accommodation available for medical students. Places are limited and are on a first come, first serve basis.
To obtain information about Grampians Health accommodation at our Ballarat site you can contact the Grampians Health Ballarat Accommodation manager on 5320 4556 or email bhsaccommodation@bhs.org.au