Student Programs for health care students

At Eastern Health, our student program and staff across campuses deliver education and training for future health professionals, providing opportunities for pre-registration and professional-entry students attaining basic professional certification.

What We Offer

Students are an essential pipeline to our future workforce and a positive student experience is our priority.

We provide a comprehensive orientation and training program to support your student placement. We offer training to staff in supervising students whilst on placement so that we may provide a supportive and welcoming environment for you, our learners. We value your contribution to our consumer, carers and our staff. We seek your feedback on program improvements.

Our Primary Partners

Disciplines

We support student placements in the following disciplines:

  • Allied Health Assistance
  • Art Therapy
  • Audiology
  • Dietetics
  • Health Information Management
  • Health Service Assistance
  • Medical Laboratory Science
  • Medicine (through Monash and Deakin Clinical Schools)
  • Mental Health
  • Midwifery
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Nursing (Enrolled and Registered)
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Pharmacy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Podiatry
  • Psychology
  • Radiology/ Medical Imaging
  • Social Work
  • Speech Pathology

Students

2,858

Across nursing, midwifery and allied health students in 2023

Placement Days

88,000

Across all professions

Fellowship Programs

We support nursing and midwifery fellowship programs with Deakin, Monash and Swinburne Universities.

  • The Deakin Fellowship Program includes:
    – Nursing: course teaching and placements are facilitated onsite at Eastern Health
    – Midwifery: a placement model where all placements are completed at Eastern Health
  • The Monash Nursing Fellowship Program is a placement model for the Bachelor of Nursing and Masters of Nursing Practice.
  • The Swinburne Nursing Fellowship Program is a placement model for Diploma and Bachelor of Nursing.

For more information about our fellowship programs please contact [email protected].

I valued the ability to practice new skills, and to consolidate and learn many transferable skills that I will be able to use in my graduate year. Undergraduate Student – Bachelor of Nursing

Student Placements for Pre-Registration students

Information for Education Providers

Education Providers should direct their placement requests for pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health to [email protected]

Information for Students

Students interested in placement at Eastern Health should check the full list of affiliated Education Providers below.

If these align with your current enrolment, please discuss your interest in Eastern Health placement directly with your Education Provider.

Affiliated Education Providers

  • ACU
  • Deakin Univeristy
  • Chisholm
  • Holmesglen
  • La Trobe University
  • Mayfield
  • Monash University
  • Swinburne University
  • RMIT
  • The University of Melbourne

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