Welcome
Student Coordinator
Ashleigh Blay
E: epstudentcoord@monashhealth.org
Contacts with Clinical Agencies
If you are a university provider and are interested in having your Exercise Physiology cohort experience placement opportunities at Monash Health, please reach out via the student coordinator contact details above. If you are a student commencing with Monash Health you are required to contact your clinical supervisor at least 4 weeks prior to your commencement date to confirm location, hours and pre-requisites for your placement.
Clinical Placement Hours
Clinical placement hours may vary between sites and should be discussed when you contact key supervisor prior to commencing your placement.
Lunch breaks/morning tea breaks will vary between sites and should be discussed with your clinical supervisor or EP student coordinator.
Within some of the Community Mental Health and Victorian Heart Hospital settings, therapy staff work shift work. Please discuss this with your supervisor if this may pose a problem and clarify what is required.
Uniform
Students are required to wear their official university polo shirt with neat, appropriate trousers. Active wear is not acceptable.
Runners may be worn while on placement. Your supervisor will advise you of this in advance.
Your student name badge MUST be worn at all times.
Discipline services available at each site
The case load at each site depends on the type of service that is offered at that site. This can include Community Health, Community Rehab, Paediatrics, Mental Health, and Subacute Exercise Physiology services. Please discuss this with your clinical educator as part of your orientation to the site.
Suggested preparation for clinical placements
Please contact your allocated clinical supervisor four weeks prior to your placement to receive the relevant information on what you are required to prepare before commencing. It is recommended that you ask your clinical supervisor if there is any required reading that needs to be completed prior to commencing. Alternatively, please email EPstudentcoord@monashhealth.org if you have any questions.
It is suggested for Mental Health Placements that some familiarity with the Mental Health Act and basic knowledge of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and depression is valuable.