MD student resources
- Session and key dates
- Expectations on clinical or research work experience
- Guidelines and policies
- Clinical experience - paid employment
The MD program is delivered over an extended academic year, so recess and vacation breaks are an important component for student success in the overall program.
Extensive clinical experiences are offered throughout the program and there is no requirement or expectation that students will undertake additional, extra-curricular or/compulsory clinical experiences in the vacation breaks.
The Graduate School of Medicine does not recommend or encourage work experience extra-curricular or outside the academic year. The school acknowledges that some students may choose to undertake to do so at certain times. Should a student decide to undertake clinical/research work experience, it will be the student’s responsibility to organise all details, including appropriate insurance. Whilst on work experience student will not be a representatives of UOW or the Graduate School of Medicine or the MD program.
Please note that the University of Wollongong does not consider compulsory clinical placements as work experience, and that any work experience organised independently by a student is not part of the compulsory clinical placement time.
All current UOW policies and guidelines are available in the UOW Policy Directory.
Academic
- GSM standing on clinical or research work experience
Student Welfare and Support
- Pregnancy, Childbirth and Adoption during the MD degree (PDF: 167 KB)
- Student Feedback and Complaints
- Safe and Respectful Communities (student support service)
- UOW Student Scholarships
- WH&S and incident reporting (Students should also refer to their Subject Outline and contact the GSM Head of Students)
Student Conduct
- Confidentiality Undertaking for all Clinical Placements/Experiences (PDF: 240 KB)
- Paid employment of students within Host Organisation, in which the student has or is undertaking clinical experience
- Policy for managing Blood-Borne Viruses
- Remuneration of Students: UOW’s Code of Practice (Work Integrated Learning – Professional Experience)
- Social Media and Medical Students: a guide to online professionalism for medical students in the Graduate School of Medicine (PDF: 198 KB)
- The Student Charter
- UOW Student Privacy and Disclosure Statement
Inherent Requirements
Inherent requirements for the UOW Doctor of Medicine (MD) course are guided by the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand (MDANZ) Inclusive Medical Education guidance statement (PDF: 1,115 KB).
All new students are expected to have read this information prior to commencing medical study.
If you have questions or concerns regarding your ability to meet the Inherent Requirements to study medicine, please contact the admissions team futurestudents@uow.edu.au or the Co-Host Graduate School Medicine Head of Students for further guidance: head-of-students-gm@uow.edu.au.
Paid employment or close personal relationships of students within Host Organisation, in which the student has/may or is undertaking clinical placement
- If you have a current / previous employment engagement or personal relationship with a Host organisation where you have been or may be assigned for clinical placement, you will be required to declare this relationship during the allocation process for each Phase. You can do this by emailing the GSM Head of Students at head-of-students-GM@uow.edu.au.
- We acknowledge that many GSM students work in Host Organisations. We envisage that it will only be in exceptional circumstances that the GSM may amend placements in a particular Host Organisation. In line with University policy should such a situation arise, students have the right to appeal the academic decision.
Please also read in conjunction with ‘Remuneration of Students' from UOW’s Code of Practice: Work Integrated Learning (Professional Experience)