In 2010, St Vincent's celebrates the centenary of the University of Melbourne St Vincent’s Clinical School.
The Clinical School on the St Vincent’s site is a campus of the University of Melbourne. Students completing undergraduate medical degrees are based at the Clinical School and complete rotations through the hospital (and in regional Victoria).
Throughout its history our Clinical School has been synonymous with excellence in medical education.
A message from the Dean
The University of Melbourne and St Vincent’s share an outstanding commitment to academic excellence.
Our students learn from our example as much from our words. In bringing together the University and St Vincent’s we offer not only exceptional clinical skills and knowledge, but the opportunity to embrace the values, attitudes and ideals we seek to exemplify each day.
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Dean and CMO
Assoc Prof Wilma Beswick
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In the beginning
Sister Mary Berchmans Daly was the driving force in the establishment of St Vincent’s Hospital in 1893. She established the first hospital in a 'low roofed, old-fashioned boarding house'.
Just a few short years later, with her background as an educator no doubt guiding her, she turned her attention to the training of doctors and the establishment of a clinical school. Two St Vincent’s surgeons, Tom Dunhill and Hugh Devine (both of whom would become true pioneers and leaders in their fields) were of a similar mind.
The three worked together to make St Vincent’s first application to the University of Melbourne for the establishment of a clinical school in 1907. While it took several years to come to pass, and for St Vincent’s to grow large enough to host the school, in 1909 the parties agreed. In 1910 the University of Melbourne St Vincent’s Clinical School opened its doors.