Teaching update

Undergraduate teaching

Surgery is one of the pillars of the Monash University medical degree. Monash students are fortunate to have access via their clinical schools to a world class surgical education, thanks in the most part to the commitment, experience and enthusiasm for teaching of hundreds of surgeons throughout Melbourne, regional Victoria and Malaysia.

 Elements of surgery are taught across all years of the program and at almost twenty clinical sites. In 2016 Monash University appointed Mr Peter Evans and Mr Tristan Leech, both practising surgeons, to the position of Curriculum/Assessment Leads for Surgery.

Teaching Update

Undergraduate teaching

Tristan Leech

Peter Evans

Monash University is undergoing a curriculum review and we are pleased to announce that Mr Peter Evans has agreed to lead the process for Surgery.   Peter is a General and Hepatobiliary Surgeon practicing at Alfred Health, Frankston Health, Cabrini Health and Peninsular Private.  He has a long association with the Alfred Department of Surgery and has been involved in undergraduate teaching since the mid 1990s. He will be assisted by Mr Tristan Leech, a General and Endocrine Surgeon at Frankston Hospital.

Their first task will be to better describe the current curriculum and map this across the 5 year undergraduate programme, ensuring all important surgical topics are not only taught but have sufficient basic science teaching to support them.

They will be contacting all teaching departments in the next few months and your co-operation would be very much appreciated.