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The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences of the University of Melbourne is the University’s largest and most diverse faculty, consisting of 52 schools, departments and centres.
In line with the Melbourne Model, the Faculty provides the Bachelor of Biomedicine, a three-year, full-time degree that offers 12 majors across a broad range of biomedical disciplines. Further study is provided by the Faculty’s four graduate schools. Each school offers study and research opportunities for graduates and experienced practitioners.
The University of Melbourne’s School of Medicine was founded in 1862 and had a humble beginning. It’s first Professor, George Halford, made do with inadequate conditions, taught few students and even conducted the first dissection in the back shed of his Carlton home in 1863. By Federation in 1901, the school had become the Faculty of Medicine.
When the Murray Committee reported in 1956 on the inadequacies of the nation's tertiary education sector, the mood to change medical education accelerated. The University was central to the revolution to medicalise society through the expansion of medical services. During the decades to follow, the University was the only tertiary institution to mentor the development of a number of medical institutions in South-East Asia and here in Victoria, the Monash Medical School.
In 1989 the University's Faculty of Dental Science amalgamated with Medicine to become the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and later expanded again to include Physiotherapy, Psychology and Nursing. It was, and continues to be today, the largest educational institution for health professionals in Australia.
The University established Australia's first School of Population Health in 2001 and then the School of Rural Health in 2002.
Today, the faculty also includes the School of Social Work (having moved from the Faculty of Arts) and the Nossal Institute for Global Health.
Adapted from Humanity's Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne.[4]
Below is a list of the Faculty deans from 1876 to the present:
The University of Melbourne was ranked in the top 20 in the world in clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects by the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The Faculty is highly active with over 1400 researchers in eight broad research domains encompassing the breadth of medicine, dentistry and the health sciences. To get information about this extensive resource of experts, the Faculty has developed a tool to "Find a researcher".
The Faculty is centred in one of Australia's most concentrated precincts of biomedical research. Students have unrivalled access to clinical training and research opportunities with medical research institutes, world class tertiary hospitals[20] and community based services.
Through extensive partnerships, the Faculty is involved in a range of major new developments, including the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Western Centre for Health Research and Education, the Peter Doherty Institute and the Melbourne Brain Centre.
The Faculty has an active student body that includes many student associations.
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