Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School

Based at NSW's largest paediatric facility

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The University of Sydney Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School is within the University’s Westmead Precinct located in western Sydney, the demographic heart of Sydney.

We deliver the child and adolescent health components of the Doctor of Medicine program, and are dedicated to delivering innovative approaches to medical education and conducting high-quality medical education research.

Our staff work across numerous specialties at the Sydney Medical School and our clinical school is the location for the heads of child and adolescent health, ear, nose and throat, emergency medicine and genomic medicine.

Placements

Clinical placements are major components of most of our health courses and integral to gaining your professional accreditation. In most courses, course-required placements are embedded from the first year and increase as you progress in your degree.

Elective placements are also offered through our clinical schools to internal and external medical students in their final year of study who wish to expand their knowledge in a specialty area or across a variety of clinical settings.  

Our research

Our researchers are dedicated to improving health through excellence in research, creating new knowledge and fostering innovation and research at the highest level.

Explore research from the Sydney Medical School.

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Teaching hospital

The University of Sydney Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School teaches out of the Children's Hospital Westmead.

If you are interested in offering your assistance as a tutor, please complete our EOI Tutor recruitment form.

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Facilities

Based at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, and partnered with Kids Research, we have access to world-class laboratories and equipment.

The Kim Oates Australian Paediatric Simulation Centre (KOAPSC) is a unique facility designed to train staff and students in cutting-edge treatments for sick children, especially in emergency scenarios. This is part of Kids Simulation Australia (KSA), the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network simulation program.

Find out more about the Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the facilities of the Kids Research.

Our people

  • Professor Russell Dale, Head of Clinical School
  • Professor Louise Baur, Chair of Child and Adolescent Health
  • Professor Russell Dale, Academic Leader (Research)
  • Dr Anne Morris, Academic Leader (Education)

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Phone
+61 427 378 993 

Email 
wcs.ea@sydney.edu.au