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The Medical School has established the Clinical Immersion Allocation Process to manage and support the allocation of your clinical immersions throughout your program.

The Clinical Immersion Allocation Processes are designed to facilitate the equitable distribution of students to clinical immersions throughout the Academic Year and across all available Clinical Locations.

  1. Definitions
  2. Allocations overview
  3. Greater Brisbane Clinical School
  4. Rural Clinical School
  1. Special consideration
  2. Late applications for special consideration
  3. Application information and form

4. Rural Clinical School

Year 3

Clinical immersion order

4.1 You will complete the five clinical immersions terms in one of the following orders:

Clinical immersion RCS

4.2 You will have the opportunity to preference the clinical immersion term order (i.e. Group 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5).

4.3 Students who can demonstrate extenuating circumstances may be afforded special consideration during the allocation process (see section 5).

4.4 Following the publication of the provisional Year 3 clinical immersion term allocations, you will be able to submit a swap request for your group using the application form. This must be submitted during the designated swap period.

4.5 Swap requests are only related to your group and can only be considered within your Learning Community (DD-SW and CQ) or Clinical Unit (Bundaberg and Hervey Bay).

4.6 All applications for group swaps will be accommodated where possible, however are subject to operational requirements. The Medical School cannot guarantee fulfilment of swap requests.

Mental Health Clinical Immersions

4.7 You will complete Mental Health clinical immersions that will be integrated across the year. A guide for the number of days and settings is included below:

  • 16-days (Inpatient ward)
  • 8-days (Community Mental Health)
  • 8-days in areas such as Older Person’s Mental Health, Alcohol & Other drugs, Consultation Liaison, Child and Youth Mental Health.

Rural Clinical Immersion Term

4.8 You will have the opportunity to preference your rural clinical immersion term location.

4.9 Students who can demonstrate extenuating circumstances may be afforded special consideration during the allocation process. This will be managed locally by the Rural Clinical School Rural and Remote Medicine Clinical Unit.

4.10 The preferencing timeline for your rural medicine clinical immersion will be communicated by the Rural Clinical School Rural and Remote Medicine Clinical Unit.

Wide Bay Learning Community Students

4.11 To support student learning and clinical capacity, 10 – 18 students can be accommodated at each clinical unit (Hervey Bay and Bundaberg).

4.12 You will have the opportunity to apply for your primary location for Years 3 and 4 (Hervey Bay or Bundaberg Regional Clinical Units). This will include the opportunity for you to outline the basis for your request.

4.13 If you can demonstrate extenuating circumstances, you may be afforded special consideration during the allocation process. This will be managed locally by the Wide Bay Learning Community.

4.14 You will be allocated to the Hervey Bay or Bundaberg Regional Clinical Units for Years 3 and 4.

4.15 If preferences for either clinical unit exceeds the operational range noted in paragraph 4.11, a request for volunteers will be made from the over-subscribed site.

4.16 If insufficient volunteers are identified, a panel will be convened to review the preferencing statements and supporting documentation. The panel will comprise:

  • Director, Rural Clinical School
  • Head, Bundaberg Regional Clinical Unit
  • Head, Hervey Bay Regional Clinical Unit

4.17 The panel will provide a recommendation for a final decision which is at the discretion of the Dean, Medical School.