Department of Community and Clinical Health facilities
The Department of Community and Clinical Health has facilities and clinics that support health and wellbeing education, research and practice.
La Trobe Health Clinic
At the centre of our clinical training is the La Trobe Health Clinic, located at the University's Bundoora campus. The Clinic brings together a range of allied health services under one roof, providing students with invaluable hands-on experience while delivering affordable, high-quality care to the community.
Our clinics embedded in the La Trobe Health Clinic include:
The La Trobe Audiology Clinic provides services to the community at the La Trobe Health Clinic.
It is equipped with suites specifically for audiology assessments, practical classes, simulations, and practical exams.
Students work under the direct supervision of highly qualified accredited and experienced clinicians and clinical educators.
It is part of our mission to ensure that students develop the competencies, skills, and experience they need to provide safe and effective audiology services to the community upon graduation.
The La Trobe Eye Clinic provides high quality, affordable eye care services at the La Trobe Health Clinic.
Students enrolled in our Bachelor of Orthoptics (Honours) work under the guidance of experienced clinicians. The hands-on experience their receive helps to develop essential clinical competencies before graduation.
The clinic delivers comprehensive, evidence-based services for children and adults with vision and eye movement disorders. It is equipped with contemporary vision testing equipment appropriate for all ages and developmental abilities.
The clinic has also developed a range of referral pathways within the community and a partnership with the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, where eligible patients are co-managed between the two services.
The La Trobe Occupational Therapy Clinic provides occupational therapy services to the community at the La Trobe Health Clinic.
The clinic supports people across the lifespan to participate in the everyday activities that matter to them including self-care, work, study, leisure and community life.
Services are delivered by students under the close supervision of experienced, fully qualified occupational therapists, ensuring safe, professional and client-centred care while providing students with essential hands-on learning.
It is part of our mission to ensure that students develop the competencies, skills and experience they need to provide safe and effective occupational therapy services to the community upon graduation.
The La Trobe Speech Pathology Clinic provides speech pathology to the community from the La Trobe Health Clinic.
The clinic offers a range of evidence-based specialist services for children and adults in voice, fluency (stuttering), and preschool speech and language, and communication and swallowing support for adults.
It is equipped with ten clinical spaces with adjacent observation rooms for teaching purposes, and has access to the La Trobe Audiology Clinic's soundproof suites specifically for audiology and voice assessments.
Clinical programs are delivered by students working under the direct supervision of highly qualified and experienced clinicians and clinical educators.
It is part of our mission to ensure that students develop the competencies, skills, and experience they need to provide safe and effective speech pathology services to the community upon graduation.
Other facilities
Our students have access to a purpose-built telehealth facility, laboratory and practical workshop spaces, where they apply their knowledge and skills under the auspice of expert clinicians. These facilities also support research that benefits both individuals and communities.
These facilities include:
Our home simulation facility teaches students how to adapt a domestic environment using assistive devices such as bathroom aids, wheelchairs and hoists. Students develop a skills-based understanding of assistive devices and the factors they need to consider when prescribing equipment for home use.
La Trobe's telehealth training facilities ensure best practice training for allied health and nursing students, and better equip clinicians undertaking professional development.
The facility features a telehealth audiovisual setup including microphone, cameras, display screens and computers; technology to stream or record video for larger groups of students or professionals; and mobile telehealth hardware to allow for high quality offsite telehealth consultations.