Royal Melbourne Hospital

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The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) in Parkville is one of Australia’s leading public hospitals. It is a major teaching hospital for tertiary health care with a reputation in clinical research. The hospital is managed as part of Melbourne Health which comprises The Royal Melbourne Hospital, North West Dialysis Service and North Western Mental Health.

1 History
2 Services and Specialities Provided
3 Postgraduate training & The Clinical School
4 Research and Other Medical and Academic Collaborations
5 External link

[edit] History

Established in 1848 as Melbourne General Hospital, it was one of Melbourne's leading hospitals. In 1935, the hospital was renamed the Royal Melbourne Hospital and moved to Parkville by provision of lands in the Royal Melbourne Hospital Act.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital continues to expand, with an amalgamation with the Royal Women's Hospital, also in Parkville, currently taking place.

[edit] Services and Specialities Provided

The Royal Melbourne Hospital provides acute tertiary referral services at its main site on Grattan Street between Flemington Road and Royal Parade and ancillary services such as aged care, rehabilitation, ambulatory care and residential and community services through its Royal Park site.

It has one of the largest Emergency Departments in Victoria and is, with the The Alfred Hospital, one of Victoria's two major trauma referral centres. There is also a helipad on top of the hospital so that urgent cases that need to be airlifted from regional areas can be transferred to the Royal Melbourne.

Most medical and surgical specialities are available at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In addition, the Victoria Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS) is based in the hospital, as is the John Cade Psychiatry Ward and the headquarters of the North Western Mental Health service.

[edit] Medical Specialities

General Medicine: Ward 5 South
Gastroenterology
Cardiology/Coronary Care Unit: CCU 2B
Respiratory Medicine
Endocrinology: 3 South and 6 South
Rheumatology
Dermatology
Renal Medicine: 6 South and 6 South-West
Neurology: 4 South
Acute Stroke Service: 4 South
Haematology and Oncology: 5 North
VIDS/Infectious Diseases: 9 North
Intensive Care Unit: ICU 2 South

[edit] Surgical Specialities

[edit] Mental Health Services

Department of Psychiatry: 1 North
Psychiatric Ward: John Cade Building
North Western Mental Health
Inner West Mental Health Service

In addition, the Royal Melbourne Hospital has an Enhanced Crisis Assessment & Treatment Team & Triage Service (ECATT) team on call 24 hours a day to assess patients in the Emergency Department.

[edit] Postgraduate training & The Clinical School

The clinical school at Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of the four clinical schools of the University of Melbourne School of Medicine (the others being based at the St Vincent's Hospital, the Austin Hospital and Goulburn Valley Base Hospital/Ballarat Base Hospital). It is one of the more prestigious clinical schools, with a high academic standard. It produced the top student in Melbourne University medical school in 2002 and 2003.

In postgraduate training, Royal Melbourne Hospital also produced the number 1 top candidate in the Royal Australasian physician college fellowship exam in the year 2002 and 2003. Most recently in March 2006, it achieved a 100% passing rate for the fellowship written exam.

The hospital offers enormous numbers of postgraduate eductional activities, including weekly professorial case discussion meeting, grand round, daily morning registrars teaching round, intern training sessions, advanced life support forums, and many other individual department-based educational sessions.

The new residents' quarter is located on the 8th floor, equipped with foxtel payTV, wireless network, computers from this millennium, 10 bedrooms and stunning panoramic view of the city of Melbourne.