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Most medical and surgical specialties are available at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. It is one of very few public hospitals in the Australasia that routinely performs robotic surgery. In addition, the Victoria Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS) is based in the hospital, as is the John Cade Psychiatry
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The Royal Melbourne Nursing Education Department provides continuing professional education opportunities for nurses. It offers programs for undergraduates, graduate nurses and postgraduate students as well as short courses, staff development and mandatory resuscitation training. It also offers some
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which comprises the Royal Melbourne Hospital, North West Dialysis Service and North Western Mental Health. The Royal Melbourne Hospital appointed Professor Shelley Dolan as the new Chief Executive following an international search. She succeeded Professor Christine Kilpatrick AO, who stepped down on
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between 1942 and 1944. While the hospital was under construction a temporary tent hospital was set up by the US Army in Royal Park just north of the hospital. Upon completion of the Parkville hospital the patients were moved progressively into the new accommodation which catered for 2,900 beds.
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The hospital offers postgraduate educational activities, including weekly professorial case discussion meeting, grand round, daily morning registrars teaching round, intern training sessions, advanced life support forums, and other individual department-based educational sessions.
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In addition to post graduate training, largely aimed at Australian trainees, the Royal Melbourne Hospital also offers clinical and research fellowship positions, most of which are open to both Australian and international candidates.
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In addition, the Royal Melbourne Hospital has an Enhanced Crisis Assessment & Treatment Team & Triage Service (ECATT) team on call 24 hours a day to assess patients in the Emergency Department.
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The Royal Melbourne Hospital continued to operate from their old premises on the corner of Lonsdale and Swanston Streets until the 4th General Hospital moved to
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in 1944. The Parkville buildings were reconditioned and the Royal Melbourne Hospital finally moved into their "new" premises in December 1944.
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and ancillary services such as aged care, rehabilitation, ambulatory care and residential and community services through its Royal Park site.
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Established in 1848 as the Melbourne Hospital, it was one of Melbourne's leading hospitals. Originally located on the corner of
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The Royal Melbourne Hospital provides acute tertiary referral services at its main site on Grattan Street between
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by provision of lands in the Royal Melbourne Hospital Act. The old buildings then became home to a relocated
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Aerial view of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (centre) with the old Royal Dental Hospital in foreground
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Streets. In 1935 the hospital was renamed the Royal Melbourne Hospital and, in 1944, it moved to
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Streets, Melbourne. Completely rebuilt on a much larger scale between 1910–1916 extending to
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The clinical school at Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of the clinical schools of the
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It has one of the largest Emergency Departments in Victoria and is, with the
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1868 wood engraving of the Melbourne Hospital in its original location.
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Ward and the headquarters of the North Western Mental Health service.
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Then-modern interior of Parkville's Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1945.
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Colorectal Surgery (including advanced minimally invasive surgery)
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Postgraduate training, the clinical school and nursing education
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The programs focus on recruitment and retention of nurses.
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The new residents' quarter is located on the 8th floor.
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Buildings and structures in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
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The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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Research and other medical and academic collaborations
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Organisations based in Australia with royal patronage
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Melbourne Hospital

Parkville
Melbourne
Coordinates
37°47′56″S 144°57′22″E / 37.7988°S 144.9561°E / -37.7988; 144.9561
Care system
Funding
Government hospital
Type
General
Affiliated university
University of Melbourne
Emergency department
Helipads
Helipad
ICAO
www.thermh.org.au
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Hospitals in Australia
Parkville, Victoria
Melbourne
Australia

Swanston
Lonsdale
Russell
Little Lonsdale
Grattan Street
Parkville

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