New Teaching Hospital
The Macquarie University Private Hospital, will include 12 operating theatres, 20 intensive care beds, 2 angiography suites, gamma knife radiosurgery and a cyclotron.
The Australian School of Advanced Medicine
Medicine at Macquarie
Welcome to the Australian School of Advanced Medicine - the first school of its kind to offer sub-specialty, post-fellowship training in a private teaching hospital. The university is building a $180 million health campus which includes the medical school and the 183-bed Macquarie University Private Hospital which promises to be the most modern health care facility in Australia. Together, the medical school and hospital will establish a new era in medicine by integrating clinical care, education and research. We welcome inquiries for our Masters and PhD programs.
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Research Excellence
The school was recently designated a Concentration of Research Excellence (CoRE) at Macquarie and is an international luminary research site for GE Healthcare.
Competency-based training
The Masters courses are rigorously assessed and competency based allowing for accelerated learning.
News and events
Funding Allocation from the Education Investment Fund
Macquarie University’s Australian School of Advanced Medicine (ASAM) will receive in excess of $16 million from the Australian Government’s Education Investment Fund to assist with the provision of advanced surgical education. This funding will allow for the development of additional facilities to assist in surgical education, specifically:
ARC Grant
Professor Alberto Avolio has been awarded a $540,000 ARC Linkage Grant for his project with GE Healthcare. Prof Avolio said he was extremely grateful for the high calibre scientific contribution from collaborators at Waseda University.
August symposium
The second annual neurosurgery clinical and scientific meeting will be held at the university on August 7 and 8 with special guest speaker R Loch Macdonald from the University of Toronto.
Macquarie Neurosurgery Symposium 2009 (pdf, 2.09MB)
First graduate
Our first graduate is Dr Wattana Mahattanakul who was awarded the Master of Advanced Surgery at the Faculty of Human Sciences graduation ceremony.