Department of Rural Clinical Sciences facilities
Our facilities, across three locations, offer students modern, interactive learning experiences and support the groundbreaking work of our researchers.
Our clinical learning environments provide realistic settings where students can master the practice-based skills of their profession in a safe and supportive environment, ensuring they are ready to use them when they enter real practice.
Rural dental and oral health clinical teaching school
La Trobe University’s $21 million Rural Dentistry and Oral Health Clinical Teaching School in central Bendigo enables closer integration between teaching, research and placement to position students at the forefront of regional healthcare delivery.
The new facility, located in La Trobe’s Clinical Teaching Building and adjacent to Bendigo Health, boasts 82 simulation workstations, 16 dental chairs, advanced radiology and digital denture-making equipment.
This increases La Trobe’s capacity deliver industry relevant education for dentistry and oral health students, helping to meet the increasing demand for dental and oral health practitioners throughout regional and rural Australia.
Our facilities include:
Our purpose-built dental simulation laboratories help students develop both periodontic and restorative/aesthetic dental clinical skills. We have 82 high-tech dental mannequins, full AV support, and flexible spaces for small or large group preclinical training to give students hands-on access during teaching sessions.
This flexible teaching space is used for prosthodontic practical laboratory teaching exercises. It is equipped with multiple overhead display screens and 28 student workstations, each with a laboratory straight handpiece and an individual suction unit to support denture fabrication and prosthodontic training from impression to construction.
Intraoral scanners and 3D printing for hands-on experience in digital workflows and restorative/aesthetic dentistry.
This teaching space has 16 fully equipped dental chairs and a clinical grade sterilisation area to create an authentic clinical setting. Students get hand-on experience in infection control procedures, non-invasive dental procedures and X-rays using dental mannequins. The simulated clinic has full AV integration to support personalised learning and build clinical confidence.
A Cone Beam CT machine and panoramic imaging facilities for training in orthodontics, endodontics, and oral surgery.
La Trobe's telehealth training facilities ensure best practice training for Allied Health, Nursing and Dentistry students, and 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.
Zoom-enabled teaching rooms, staff offices, and student areas designed for collaboration, study, and downtime.
Bendigo campus
La Trobe’ University's upgraded science facilities feature three main teaching facilities and separate research laboratories.
Students have access to state of the art digital and physical technology to support active learning environments. Our mock pharmacy and science labs replicate real world clinical and scientific environments to foster peer interaction, reflective practice and engagement with academic staff.
Our facilities include:
The Hub features a mock pharmacy, anatomy lab and high-tech spaces for research and industry collaboration. The mock pharmacy enables students to practice filling scripts and working with people to explain the appropriate actions regarding their prescribed medicines. The anatomy lab has access to digital 4D screens and virtual reality headsets, along with plastinated cadaver specimens and human anatomy models.
These specialist wet lab laboratories service pharmacy, biological sciences and biomedical science subjects, with 30-student capacity and adjustable benches for students with mobility requirements. Within this space students learn about formulated medicines along with understanding how they work and interact within the body.
The research laboratories incorporate Physical Containment Class 2 requirements, with areas to support microbiology, molecular biology, cell culture and analytical research. We have state of the art microscopes to enable single molecules to be viewed and studied, along with space for industry to work beside us in a collaborative approach.
Albury-Wodonga campus
At our Albury Wodonga campus students have access to technology enabled, high fidelity science and learning spaces. They are able to translate conversations with world-class researchers and academics with their own experiments in biomedical, biological and environmental sciences.
Our facilities include:
Our teaching laboratory accommodates up to 32 students and features height-adjustable benches to ensure accessibility for all learners. The lab supports teaching across biomedical, biological and environmental sciences, and is complemented by a dedicated anatomy resource room equipped with human anatomy models and an immersive virtual reality system. With small class sizes and opportunities to engage in diverse areas of research, students at Albury-Wodonga benefit from a supportive and hands-on learning environment.
The Albury-Wodonga campus is also home to two specialised research laboratories: a Physical Containment Class 2 facility supporting histology, molecular biology and cell culture, and a larger open-plan laboratory designed for research in toxicology, ecology and analytical sciences.