Central Learning Community

The UQ Central Learning Community is situated in Brisbane’s central metropolitan regions. The Central Learning Community offers positive learning experiences in clinical care across a wide range of settings and gives students the opportunity to work across two hospitals and community providers. The main location of the learning community is based at the Herston Health Precinct, which is home to more than 30 health facilities, research institutes, universities and organisations working together to deliver excellence in health. Medical students in all years of the MD Program are welcomed.

Primary Care

In partnership with general practices across greater Brisbane, clinical placements support our medical students to be involved in multidisciplinary primary care teams in the community. Active learning occurs in a diverse range of dedicated general practices, with students being taught by experienced clinicians, engaging in consultations and interacting with patients in the community.

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH)

RBWH is Queensland’s largest hospital, employing more than 9,000 multidisciplinary staff and providing over one million episodes of life-saving treatment each year.  RBWH provides more than one tenth of all patient services in Queensland as well as services to patients in Northern New South Wales and the Northern Territory.  As a tertiary referral, teaching hospital and, with 986 beds, there is an extensive array of disciplines providing both inpatient and outpatient care to the adult population in addition to neonatal intensive care.

Students studying in the Central Learning community also have access to learning activities at the Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Services (known as STARS) located at the RBWH site. STARS provides specialist surgery, endoscopy, and clinical rehabilitation services for patients with a variety of conditions including brain injury and chronic pain.

Greenslopes Private Hospital

Located just south of the CBD, Greenslopes is one of Australia’s leading private teaching hospitals owned and operated by Ramsay Health Care. The hospital is recognised as a leader in teaching and research in Australia’s private health care sector.

Key Learning Community staff

Head, Central Learning Community: Associate Professor Wendy Findlay

Clinical Unit Team Leader: Nerina Higgs

Central Learning Community contact: med.centrallcstudents@uq.edu.au

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Ramsay Health Care (including Greenslopes Private Hospital) still require students to have 2 documented doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine. Students who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are unable to be allocated to the Central Learning Community.