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Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

1. The Faculty

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in health sciences including medicine, nursing, public health, health services management, radiography and medical imaging, ambulance and paramedic studies, dietetics and nutrition, psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and social work. Some departments of the faculty are involved in undergraduate teaching for the Faculty of Science (eg Immunology), and supervision of Faculty of Science postgraduate students.

The faculty has approximately 2,000 academic and professional staff and a student enrolment of more than 7,000 students distributed across a number of campuses in Victoria and overseas. In addition, more than 1,500 honorary staff in affiliated hospitals, teaching practices and research institutes contribute to the faculty's teaching programs.

The major teaching hospitals of the faculty are the Monash Medical Centre, Box Hill Hospital and The Alfred Hospital. The School of Rural Health has nodes located in Mildura, Bendigo, Gippsland (Traralgon and Warragul) and East Gippsland (Bairnsdale and Sale), and offices at Moe and on the Clayton Campus.

Faculty Schools and Departments

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/schools.html

Faculty Centres and Institutes:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/centres-institutes.html

Principal areas of research by School and academic unit:

http://med.monash.edu.au/research/units.html

Other links:

Undergraduate degree courses

http://med.monash.edu.au/ugrad/

Postgraduate study

http://med.monash.edu.au/pgrad/

2. The library's collection

a. Location

There are branches of Monash University Library at each Monash University campus. For more information see www.lib.monash.edu.au/libraries/

Materials purchased for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences are located at the Berwick, Gippsland, Clayton, Caulfield and Peninsula campuses.

Academic staff at all locations can make suggestions about items for inclusion into the library's collection.

Textbooks supporting the clinical years of the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and some specialised material supporting research are located at various affiliated teaching hospitals. See http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/libraries/ for more information about the affiliated hospital libraries.

In general, Monash University staff and students located at affiliated teaching hospitals have full access to materials and services provided by both the hospital and Monash University Library. For Monash staff and students not located at these sites, there are restrictions on access to these affiliated libraries, although an intercampus loan and document delivery service operates from some of the sites.

b. Language

Generally only material in the English language is acquired.

c. Classification used

The material purchased for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification.

d. Formats

No format is excluded, but in practice the majority of the collections consist of monographs and serials, both print and electronic. The demand for serial literature is high. Monash is currently exploring development of an e-preferred policy.

e. Size of the collection

Current statistics on the size of the collection can be found on the Library website at

Library at a glance – statistics

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/about/glance-statistics.html

f. Electronic resources

The library is spending an increasing proportion of its budget on resources in electronic format, including full text resources and suites of electronic journals.
These electronic resources are found at:

Databases and electronic resources

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/databases/

Electronic journals

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/ejournals/

http://search.lib.monash.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?&vid=MUL

g. Coverage of the collection

The main areas of collecting for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences are detailed below:

Berwick	Health Promotion Determinants of health, health care systems, health care policies and politics Culture and society, biological bases of disease Nursing (Community Health) Behavioural science Biosciences Social Welfare Human structure and function, child welfare, aged care
Caulfield	Social Work Child abuse and child protection, family violence Social policy, welfare politics and ideology, community action Psychology Developmental and biological, cognitive and social, testing and measurement Ethics, abnormal and addictive behaviours, perception and personality Health Sciences Public health, health vulnerability, health and human rights Health ethics, epidemiology, communicable and chronic disease prevention, evidence-based practice
Caulfield	Social Work Child abuse and child protection, family violence Social policy, welfare politics and ideology, community action Psychology Developmental and biological, cognitive and social, testing and measurement Ethics, abnormal and addictive behaviours, perception and personality Health Sciences Public health, health vulnerability, health and human rights Health ethics, epidemiology, communicable and chronic disease prevention, evidence-based practice
Clayton	Biomedical Sciences Anatomy and developmental biology Physiology Medical imaging and radiation sciences Biochemistry and molecular biology Microbiology Pharmacology Immunology Stem cells and regenerative medicine Psychology and Psychiatry Including developmental, clinical , counselling, experimental, forensic, health and social psychology and psychiatry Neuropsychology and neuroscience Psychological testing and measurement Medicine Ethics, legal issues, professionalism Health promotion, public health, population and global health, biostatistics and epidemiology, health economics Evidence-based practice Clinical skills, communication skills, history taking, physical examination, procedural skills Nursing and Midwifery Nursing care Nurse education, ethics, law, governance, management Evidence-based practice Pharmacology and therapeutics Midwifery Primary Health Care General Practice Clinical education and professional development Primary Care - Healthy ageing, problem gambling, child abuse, developmental disability Rural Health Rural health workforce Rural health services models Medical education and support Social determinants of health Community development Indigenous Health
Gippsland	Nursing and Midwifery Midwifery Evidence-based practice, nursing research Nurse education, ethics, history, law, management, process, workforce Nursing care: Acute and critical, aged, chronic, community, emergency, extended, gerontics, medical and surgical, neonatal and paediatric, mental health, oncology, palliative, psychiatric, psychosocial, rehabilitation Pharmacology and therapeutics, alternative therapies Family and women’s health, public and rural health, indigenous health Medicine Evidence-based practice Information literacy, critical thinking, medical informatics, ethics, law Clinical skills, first aid, communication skills, history taking, physical examination, procedural skills Women and children’s health, rural and indigenous health, patient-centred care Scientific basis of clinical practice: Anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, psychology Personal and professional development Health promotion, population health, epidemiology, society, health economics
Peninsula	Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice Clinical leadership, emergency preparedness Paramedic management of: Cardio-respiratory, critical care specialty situations Health conditions at life stages Medical conditions, mental health, trauma Nursing and Midwifery Alternative therapies Applied psychology, human biology Midwifery Nurse education, ethics, history, law, management, process Nursing care: Acute and critical, aged, adults, community, emergency, extended, gerontics, medical and surgical, neonatal and paediatric, mental health, oncology, palliative, psychiatric, psychosocial, rehabilitation Pharmacology and therapeutics Family and women’s health, public and rural health Occupational Therapy Adaptive and assistive technology, assessment of children, hand therapy Evidence-based practice , health promotion Human structure and function Occupational performance, occupational science Physiotherapy Anatomy and physiology , biomechanics Inter-professional communication , sociology Kinesiology, pathology, pharmacology, radiology, rehabilitation Represents crossover subject areas with all Peninsula departments
Affiliated hospital libraries:	Alfred Health Epidemiology and preventive medicine Medicine Surgery Immunology Women’s health Haematology Anaesthesia Eastern Health Haematology Oncology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Hepatology Neurology Respiratory medicine Nephrology Coeliac disease Crohn's disease Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Translational research Southern Health Obstetrics and gynaecology Paediatrics Neurosciences Nutrition and dietetics Medicine Surgery Immunology Women’s health Ageing Emergency medicine Cancer research

3. Other significant Monash collections or resources

Rare Books Collection

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/rare/

There is a significant collection of medical books housed in the Rare Books Collection of the Sir Louis Matheson Library. The collection includes:

The Australian Medical Association's Rare Book Collection of 5,232 books
Material from the library of Dr Richard Travers, consisting of approximately 15,000 rare medical works. This collection includes early Australian medical books, and books on fringe medicine, shell shock, battle fatigue, RSI and AIDS
The Goller Collection of AIDS material from the Fairfield Hospital
A collection of 18th and 19th century forensic medicine material

Collecting is continuing in the areas of ‘History of Medicine’ and ‘Gender studies’

Amendment history
January 2001
First issued
July 2004
Extensively amended
October 2011

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