Medicine covers the various internal body systems, such as haematology, cardiology, endocrinology, geriatric medicine, gastroenterology, renal medicine, clinical pharmacology, respiratory medicine, general medicine, rheumatology, neurology, and immunology. The Discipline of Medicine is spread over 5 campuses Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital The Prince Charles Hospital Mater Misericordiae Adult Hospital Princess Alexandra Hospital Greenslopes Private Hospital The Discipline’s Academic staff members are involved in education, patient care, research, and community service.

Prof Darrell Crawford Head, Academic Discipline of Medicine view profile

All of the Discipline’s teaching staff are medical specialists and have concurrent QLD Health appointments in Hospitals, many as Directors of their specialty in the Hospital in which they work.

Teaching Activities

Undergraduate – MBBS Program
The Discipline of Medicine teaches Internal Medicine (i.e. Immunology, Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine, Neurology, Endocrinology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Haematology, Clinical Pharmacology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology) to students undertaking the MBBS program.

While Discipline staff members are actively involved in all years of the 4-year graduate MBBS Program, most of our teaching is to those students in Years 3 and 4 of that program.

Postgraduate
Our teaching and research academic staff members are heavily involved with the supervision of Research Higher Degree (PhD and MPhil) students and currently supervise approximately 130 Research Higher Degree (RHD) students.

Study topics range from pure laboratory science to fully clinical studies. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds, including graduates from Science, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Nursing, Veterinary Science, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Arts, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, as well as, of course, Medicine.

Research Activities

Research is conducted in clinical and laboratory settings over a diverse range of topics, reflecting the specialty teaching areas covered by the staff of the Discipline of Medicine. Because the clinical staff of the Discipline are involved with patient care in the Hospitals, this ensures that their laboratory-based research programs have clinical relevance.

A small selection of our research fields is

• Immunology (including Neuroimmunology)
• Cardiovascular Medicine
• Respiratory Medicine
• Neurological Disorders
• Cancer Research
• Endocrinology & Metabolic Research
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Experimental Haematology
• Pharmacology
• Gastroenterology
• Hepatology