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Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences1. The facultyThe Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in many of the health sciences - medicine, nursing, public health, health services management, radiography and medical imaging, ambulance and paramedic studies, dietetics and nutrition, psychology and social work, on four university campuses, and has a major commitment to biological and biomedical science and biotechnology. Some departments of the faculty are involved in undergraduate teaching for the Faculty of Science (eg Immunology), and supervision of Faculty of Science postgraduate students. The faculty has about 1,200 teaching and research staff and a student enrolment of more than 6,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate) distributed across a number of campuses in Melbourne, rural Victoria and overseas. In addition, more than 1,000 honorary staff in affiliated hospitals, teaching practices and research institutes contribute to the faculty's teaching programs. The major teaching hospitals of the faculty are the Monash Medical Centre, Box Hill Hospital and The Alfred Hospital. The School of Rural Health, established in 2001, has nodes located in Mildura, Bendigo, Gippsland (Traralgon and Warragul) and East Gippsland (Bairnsdale and Sale), and offices at Moe and on the Clayton Campus. There are seven schools within the faculty. They are listed below, together with their major site/s in parentheses. School of Biomedical Sciences (Clayton) med.monash.edu.au/sobs/ Departments:
Centres:
School of Nursing (Gippsland/Peninsula) www.med.monash.edu.au/nursing/ Centres:
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine (Caulfield/Clayton) www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/ Departments:
Centres:
Central & Eastern Clinical School (The Alfred and Box Hill Hospitals) www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/ Departments:
Centres:
Southern Clinical School (Monash Medical Centre) Departments:
Institutes:
School of Primary Health Care (Peninsula, Caulfield) Departments:
Centres:
School of Rural Health
(www.med.monash.edu.au/srh/) The faculty is also affiliated with five independent world-class research institutes
A full list of departments, institutes, centres and units of the faculty, together with their research interests, is given in Appendix 1 below.
2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationAcademic staff at all locations can make suggestions about items for inclusion into the library's collection. Materials purchased for the School of Nursing are located on the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses and items purchased for students and staff in the Monash University Centre for Ambulance and Paramedic Studies are located on the Peninsula campus. Specialised or more advanced Monash University Library material, mostly supporting research and clinical years of the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), may be located at various affiliated teaching hospital, including:
In general, Monash university staff and students located at affiliated teaching hospitals have full access to materials and services provided by both the hospital and Monash University Library. For Monash staff and students not located at these sites, there are restrictions on access to these affiliated libraries, although an intercampus loan and document delivery service operates from some of the sites. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of areas such as psychology, ethics, biology, and chemistry, collections within these and other areas are developed and maintained for several departments or faculties within the university eg Faculties of Science and Pharmacy, and there is considerable overlap in the usage of these collections. Materials purchased for the Department of Social Work are located at the Caulfield campus. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired. c. Classification used.The material purchased for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. d. Formats.No format is excluded, but in practice the majority of the collections consist of monographs and serials, both print and electronic. The demand for serial literature is high, as there is a need for both students and researchers in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to be up to date with current developments in their field of interest, and there is a need to constantly monitor the budget to maintain the proportion of expenditure on serials and electronic information at a reasonable level, usually judged to be approximately 75%. e. Size of the collectionEstimated number of monograph volumes purchased per annum: over 3300 volumes. Number of print serial titles received: Approximately 1000 print subscriptions are received, with the great majority being held in the Hargrave-Andrew Library, and about 100 titles each in the Gippsland and Peninsula libraries. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe library is spending an increasing proportion of its budget on resources in electronic format, including full text resources and suites of electronic journals. These electronic resources include: Indexing and abstracting services
Full text databases /electronic journal suites
Subject gateways Approximately 35% % of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is spent on print serials, 25% on monographs and 40% on electronic resources. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the faculty cover a broad range of areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification because of the extensive teaching and research areas within the faculty. The main areas of collecting for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences are detailed below
The introduction in 2002 of a new five-year medical course, the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), required a change of focus in terms of the types of materials that will be of use to these students. The new course is designed as an integrated curriculum structure incorporating the four themes of Personal and Professional Development; Population, Society, Health and Illness; Foundations of Medicine; and Clinical Skills. In the early years the course will include general practice and rural visits, and an introduction to community clinics and hospitals. The medical curriculum provides an interdisciplinary program, organised to provide integration of structure and function within the biomedical sciences. It presents a continually expanding level of medical experience, starting in the first semester of the course. In the early years, the basic medical sciences are taught in the context of their relevance to patient care. Later in the course, clinical teaching builds upon and reinforces this strong scientific foundation. All students will spend significant time in rural areas as part of a health care team. The new course has a greater emphasis on the context of medical practice and case-based learning. Students develop skills in problem solving and critical appraisal of information, with greater use of self-directed study. Thus more case study type material to support a problem-based learning approach, and more evidence-based medicine resources are being purchased to assist in developing these skills. Gippsland and Peninsula libraries collect at a level to support undergraduate teaching in the areas of aged care, alternative therapies, applied psychology, community nursing, emergency nursing, extended care, health law, human biology, medical ethics, medical/surgical nursing, mental health nursing, midwifery, neonatal and paediatric nursing, nursing adults, nursing history, nursing management, nursing process, oncology and palliative care. pharmacology and therapeutics, psychosocial nursing, and public health issues. Support for undergraduate teaching is and will remain the nucleus of the Gippsland and Peninsula libraries' collection policies. The increasing development of postgraduate courses and research degrees does, however, require that more emphasis be given to the provision of research collections in some areas of nursing. Areas for collection development to research level include acute and critical care, community nursing, ethics, family and women's health, gerontics, management, paramedic studies, midwifery, nurse education, nursing law, palliative care, psychiatric nursing, rehabilitation nursing, rural health and sexual health of adolescents. The Peninsula Library also intends to develop a research level collection to support the recently established Centre for Ambulance and Paramedic Studies on that campus. In 2005 the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences will offer a Diploma of Health Sciences at the Peninsula campus, and in 2006 students will be enrolled in courses in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy on the Peninsula campus. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesRare Books collection: There is a significant collection of medical books held in Rare Books in the Sir Louis Matheson Library. Monash University Library acquired the Australian Medical Association's Rare Book Collection in 1995. As well, a local book collector is gradually donating his collection of rare medical works under the Taxation Incentive Scheme. His major areas of collection are early Australian medical books, books on fringe medicine and on such phenomena as shell shock, battle fatigue, RSI and in particular AIDS. There is also a collection of AIDS material - the Ian Gollar Collection, from Fairfield Hospital, as well as a collection on forensic medicine which contains a significant number of 18th and 19th century works. (Rare Books site: www.lib.monash.edu.au/rare/) Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
Appendix 1Full list of departments, institutes, centres and units of the faculty and their research interests.Principal areas of research of the departments include: Anatomy and Cell Biology -- cardiovascular cell biology, kidney development and kidney disease, neuroscience, male reproductive biology, connective tissue biology and blood disorders. Biochemistry and Molecular biology - apoptosis, arthritis, ATP synthase, autoimmunity, bioenergetics, growth factors, interferons, mitochondria, peptide vaccine technology, molecular parasitology, yeast. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine - chronic diseases and health services research, clinical epidemiology, clinical pharmacology, infectious disease epidemiology, occupational and environmental health, preventive medicine. Forensic Medicine - forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, forensic toxicology, molecular biology and tissue banking, injury causation and prevention, patterns of injury, sexual assault, traumatic neuropathology, ageing of injuries, traffic medicine, wound ballistics, SIDS. The Department of Forensic Medicine also has access to the library service incorporated in the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and to the collection of the Donor Tissue Bank. General Practice - cardiovascular medicine, general practice psychiatry, musculoskeletal medicine, inter professional linkages (GP/pharmacists, GP/nurses), medical ethics, GP stress and community/hospital health services research. Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences - educational aspects of the field of radiography and medical imaging, medical ultrasound and technological aspects of medical imaging. Medicine (Alfred Hospital) - organ transplantation, renal disease, respiratory disease, clinical pharmacology, infectious diseases, oncology, rheumatology, dermatology and palliative care. Medicine (Box Hill) - Research Activities- Fibrinolysis/Plasminogen activator laboratory, Serpins Biology Group, The Dynamic Cytoskeleton, The Blood Platelet, Matrix Biology Group Medicine (Monash Medical Centre) - inflammation, immunology and neurosciences. The Department houses the Monash University Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, conjointly recognised by the University and Monash Medical Centre, which focuses on arthritis, glomerulonephritis and liver inflammation. Microbiology - medical microbiology and microbial pathogenesis, infection and immunity, vaccine development, molecular parasitology, molecular virology, viral gene expression, molecular microbiology and microbial genetics. These research areas are directed towards investigations into malaria, tuberculosis, shigellosis, leptospirosis, fowl cholera, dengue fever, gas gangrene, ovine footrot, meningococcus, gonorrhoea and actinomycosis. Nursing - health and nursing informatics; rural nursing practice; positive ageing; emergency nursing practice, triage, protocols, special population groups; quality use of medicines, medication errors; graduate nursing programs, program evaluation; midwifery practice and maternity enhancement programs; cardiac care: transitional care and health education; operating room practices; community nursing: client education, community as a client; adolescent and women's sexual and reproductive health, program evaluation; mental health crisis, community mental health; education: innovation, clinical and international; professional issues: ethical and legal; health management, clinical data management; palliative care. Obstetrics and Gynaecology - reproductive endocrinology, menstruation, implantation, infertility, trophoblast function, preterm labour, low birth weight, endometriosis, preeclampsia, ovarian cancer, factors in fibroid growth and development. Paediatrics - Foetal and neonatal physiology, foetal surgery, SIDS, sleep studies, growth disorders, pathogenesis of viral infections, developmental disability, adolescent medicine, clinical and interventional cardiology. Pathology - allergy to pollens and grasses, autoimmune gastritis, autoimmunity, decision making in the thymus, diabetes and novel T-cell populations, immunological tolerance, immunotherapy, immunopathology of gas gangrene, protein transport, cell division. Pharmacology - neuropharmacology, molecular pharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, reproductive and genitourinary pharmacology, venoms and toxins, use of novel microscopic imaging techniques for early diagnosis Physiology - cardiovascular physiology, cell and molecular biology, endocrinology, stress physiology, reproductive biology, foetal and neonatal physiology, autonomic neurobiology, muscle and exercise physiology, neuroscience. Psychological Medicine - psychiatric aspects of general medicine, general practice psychiatry, psychotic illnesses, psychogeriatrics, psychoanalytic studies, behavioural neurobiology, psychopharmacology, health psychology, medical education. Social Work - child abuse and child protection, family violence, sexual assault, social work education, welfare politics and ideology, drug law reform, effective casework, young people leaving care, voluntary agencies in the welfare state, mental health. Surgery (Alfred Hospital) - molecular biology, cell culture, colorectal cancer, evaluation of laparoscopic procedures, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, gastric mucosal protection. Surgery (Cabrini Hospital) - bowel cancer is the major area of research. The department has developed "Tracking Bowel Cancer," a community awareness program. Surgery (Monash Medical Centre) - breast cancer, clinical kidney and pancreas transplantation, microvascular surgical techniques, organ transplantation, retinal research, vascular surgery. Centres and Institutes (www.med.monash.edu.au/centres-institutes.html)
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