About Shoalhaven Campus

Students studying medicine at UOW will receive a broad based education with a focus on rural medicine, with the skills and ability to practice in any geographic setting. You will also have the choice to study either at the Wollongong campus or at UOW’s Shoalhaven Campus.

At the Shoalhaven Campus of the GSM there is equivalence of educational resources, availability of teachers and placements with local doctors and the Shoalhaven District Hospital.

Utilising state of the art video conferencing facilities the GSM is able to provide a highly interactive learning environment for its students. This environment allows for two way communication between students and lecturers at either campus and combined with a cutting edge clinical skills laboratory and other educational delivery methods allows for a media rich learning experience.

The curriculum of the University of Wollongong's Graduate School of Medicine has a regional, rural and remote theme and that's part of the feeling you get when you come to Nowra to visit the Shoalhaven Campus.

UOW’s Shoalhaven Campus is located at Nowra, approximately 60 minutes drive south of Wollongong. Nowra is the main rural centre in the Shoalhaven, an area famous for its beautiful coastline and beaches, rivers, lakes and rolling green farmland. We would be happy to show you around and answer your questions. In addition, look around the Shoalhaven at the natural beauty of the river, Jervis Bay and the National Parks.

The Shoalhaven Campus may well be more of what you are looking for. Contact Lyndal Parker-Newlyn at lyndal@uow.edu.au or Babs Allen at babs@uow.edu.au

Last reviewed: 14 June, 2007