Barwon Health

Barwon Health is Victoria's largest regional healthcare provider. Barwon Health has an annual budget of over $300 million and employs approximately 3,000 staff. It has total of 1,000 beds and nine sites extending as far as Anglesea, Torquay and Lorne.

Undergraduate and postgraduate training is offered at Geelong Hospital, the State's major regional teaching hospital. Geelong Hospital is affiliated with the University of Melbourne for medical student training and takes 360 trainees per annum. The University's Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences: Barwon Health is multidisciplinary, including Chairs of Medicine, Surgery and Psychiatry. Barwon Health provides training programs including a range of tutorials to assist junior doctors to prepare for their first part specialist examinations. Geelong Hospital is the only hospital outside of Melbourne to be a fully accredited level three physician teaching facility.

The areas with the greatest number of research projects are cardiology, oncology, and the Clinical and Biomedical Sciences. In the 2004/05 year, 87 new research projects commenced, of these 67 projects (77% of the total) were clinical research or clinical trials.

For further information on Barwon Health please visit: www.barwonhealth.org.au