Program Information

Clinical Elective Placements at the Royal Children's Hospital Campus

For EXTERNAL Students (In-coming)

We offer elective placements of 4 weeks duration for medical students from universities other than The University of Melbourne to undertake clinical electives in the Royal Children’s Hospital.  We offer placements in a number of paediatric specialty medicine and surgery units.

Elective students are attached to a Royal Children’s Hospital clinical department for the duration of the placement.  Students will be provided many opportunities to engage in clinical activities in relation to patient assessment and patient care.  Although there may be opportunities to attend current tutorials, The University of Melbourne does not provide assessment or formal teaching sessions related to your approved elective placement.

We offer elective placements for a maximum of 4 weeks only.  We will try our best to accommodate your first preference; however, due to the number of applications we receive, we cannot guarantee that the clinical placements requested will always be available.  We are unable to offer paediatric placements in Emergency Department or General Medicine.

Placements are ONLY available February to mid-August and mid-October to December. We are unable to offer placements outside these times.

Please read the RCH Elective Information Guide carefully before you apply .

If after reading our guide you would like to apply for a placement at the Royal Children’s Hospital, please complete the application form and submit via email with other documents as listed on the form to the Electives Coordinator.

rch.elective@rch.org.au
Clinical Elective Administrator
Department of Paediatrics
The University of Melbourne
+613 9345 9168