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The Faculty of Medicine's website address is www.med.unsw.edu.au.

The Faculty of Medicine website provides information about programs, courses, research interests, news and current events. The website also contains links to all the schools, units, centres and the affiliated research institutes of the Faculty, as well as staff, student and alumni information resources.

The Faculty of Medicine was established when the NSW Government accepted a proposal of the Murray Committee of Inquiry into the future of Australian universities and announced in December 1957, that a second medical school in New South Wales would be established within the re-named University of New South Wales.

The Faculty's first students enrolled in 1961 and 25 of these graduated from the six-year program in 1966. A five-year undergraduate curriculum was introduced in 1974. Although this was a highly successful curriculum, a number of changes in both the hospital and health systems indicated the need for the Faculty to extend the program to a six-ear curriculum in 1988.

The Faculty of Medicine consists of all members of the academic staff, both full-time academics as well as conjoint and adjunct appointees from teaching hospitals, student representatives and other persons nominated by the Faculty. The Presiding Member is elected biennially from the professors and associate professors of the Faculty.

The Dean is the principal channel of communication between the Faculty and the University on administrative matters. The Dean and the Faculty are supported by a number of committees, some of which perform administrative tasks, while many assist in maintaining a constant review of the curriculum and the objectives of medical education.

The primary mission of the Faculty is the pursuit of excellence in medical and biomedical education within a scholarly environment of research and discovery.

All students enrolling or re-enrolling in postgraduate programs should contact their School Office for information on enrolment. School offices will provide detailed information on enrolment procedures and fees, enrolment in miscellaneous courses, locations and hours of cashiers and late enrolment details. Students interested in undertaking a postgraduate program should consult the appropriate Head of School or the Postgraduate Administrative Officer, Office of the Dean.

For details on computer recommendations and specifications see the IT Requirements for UNSW Students policy at: www.its.unsw.edu.au/policies/policies_home.html

The Faculty of Medicine provides support for computers owned by UNSW that are being used by graduate students. To access support, graduate students must obtain approval from their supervisor and then call the IT Service Desk on (02) 9385 1333.

All official email from the Faculty of Medicine will be sent to students' UNSW email accounts. It is expected at all UNSW students will either routinely check their UNSW email account or have their UNSW email account forwarded to another email address. Information about managing your UNSW email account can be obtained from www.disconnect.unsw.edu.au.

The NSW Department of Health has a policy that all students who require access in any capacity to facilities operated by the Department must undergo a criminal record check prior to employment or placement in any capacity in the NSW Health System. The check is conducted by the NSW Police Service and is coordinated by the Department of Health and the University. Further details are available on the Faculty's website at www.med.unsw.edu.au.

Students who fail to satisfy the requirements of this check at any point during their enrolment in postgraduate programs accessing NSW Health facilities will be excluded from the program. Depending upon the circumstances at the time, students may be eligible to transfer to another program at the University.

Under the Commission for Children and Young People Act 1998 and the Child Protection (Prohibited Employment) Act 1998, students who as part of their enrolment are required to have direct contact with children must declare whether they are a 'prohibited person', that is whether they have been convicted of a serious sex offence. It is an offence for a 'prohibited person' to work with children.

Any student who is a 'prohibited person' at any point during their enrolment in a postgraduate program will be excluded from the program. Depending upon the circumstances at the time, students may be eligible to transfer to another program at the University.

In order to be enrolled in a UNSW Faculty of Medicine postgraduate program, students must agree to comply with the Faculty's Immunisation and Blood-borne Viruses Policy, which aims to minimise the risk of students contracting or spreading an infectious disease or blood-borne virus, such as HIV, and Hepatitis B or C. Students who undertake or could reasonably be expected to undertake exposure-prone procedures have a professional responsibility to take appropriate steps to know their infective status in relation to blood-borne viruses. A student who is aware he or she has a blood-borne virus infection must not undertake exposure-prone procedures.

Any infective student who knowingly undertakes an exposure-prone procedure or any student who in any other way endangers the health of patients will be reported to the Medical Board's Impaired Practitioner Program. This may result in registration being withdrawn, which will result in expulsion from the postgraduate program. Such a student would also be subject to the University's Student Misconduct procedures and may further be liable to criminal prosecution if a blood-borne virus is knowingly transmitted.

The Immunisation and Blood-borne Viruses policy of the Faculty of Medicine can be found on the website at www.med.unsw.edu.au. Students could be required to sign a statement indicating that they have read and agree to comply with this policy at the time of enrolment.

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