Department of Rural Clinical Sciences facilities
Our facilities 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.
Our facilities include:
Our purpose-built dental simulation laboratories help students develop both periodontic and restorative dental clinical skills. These laboratories are soon to receive a major upgrade and transferal to the Clinical Teaching Building to create the Clinical School of Dentistry and Oral Health.
Each of the two laboratories has 31 simulated dental manikins, to give students hands-on access during teaching sessions. In the new Clinical School of Dentistry and Oral Health, there will be 82 simulated dental manikins.
The Hub features a mock pharmacy, anatomy lab and high-tech spaces for research and industry collaboration.
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.
The research laboratories incorporate Physical Containment Class 2 requirements, with areas to support microbiology, molecular biology, cell culture and analytical research.
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.
This teaching space has eight fully equipped dental chairs and a clinical grade sterilisation area. Students get hand-on experience in infection control procedures, non-invasive dental procedures and X-rays using dental manikins.
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.