ANU Medical School
The Peter Baume ANU Medical School building, pictured in 2007.
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| Type | Public university college graduate medical school |
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| Established | November 2003 |
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Parent institution
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Australian National University |
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Academic affiliation
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| Dean | Professor Nicholas Glasgow |
| Deputy Dean | Professor Imogen Mitchell |
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Administrative staff
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200 |
| Students | 400 |
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Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 0200, Australia 35°16′34″S 149°07′01″E / 35.276°S 149.117°ECoordinates: 35°16′34″S 149°07′01″E / 35.276°S 149.117°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | medicalschool |
The ANU Medical School (ANUMS) is a graduate medical school of the Australian National University, a public university located in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. Established in November 2003 following accreditation by the Australian Medical Council (AMC), ANUMS commenced offering studies in the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B., B.S.) (Latin: Medicinae Baccalaureus et Chirurgiae Baccalaureus) program and, under the leadership of the Foundation Dean, Professor Paul Gatenby, the first cohort of students commenced in February 2004. In January 2014 the AMC approved the ANU Medical School changing its medical program to the award of the MChD (Latin: Medicinae ac Chirurgiae Doctoranda) program.
The current Dean of Medicine is Professor Nicholas Glasgow and Deputy Dean of Medicine Professor Imogen Mitchell.
Walter Burley Griffin’s plan for the design of Canberra not only designated Acton Peninsula as a hospital site, but did so whilst simultaneously placing it adjacent to a university where he envisaged a medical school would be located. One of the best extant sources of evidence of the geometry and intent of Walter Burley Griffin’s formally adopted plan for Canberra, is set out in the Report of Federal Capital City Designs of the Board of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia (1912).
“Black Mountain rising almost directly out of the waters at the Western end of the “Water Axis,” is set off from the formal pool by the University and surrounding Professional schools…it will be noted that fundamental sciences, descriptive of nature lead directly to the theoretical sciences dependent on them…Some such arrangement is necessary to permit proper expansion in these changing fields, with convenience to students. Moreover, it is endeavoured to direct these lines on the site to such fields for actual application as are more available to them…Thus from Physiology and Gymnasia open onto the broad flat athletic grounds and the water areas and the Hospital, of itself in a most suitable isolated location with equable temperature and atmospheric conditions is adjoined by the Medical, Surgical, Pharmaceutic schools."
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