St Lucia

The St Lucia Clinical Unit is one of the main homes for students in phase 1 of the MD program, and is the primary base for year 1 students. The unit is staffed by a team of academic and professional staff who lead the delivery of courses in Clinical Science, Clinical Practice, and Ethics and Professional Practice.

Case-Based Learning (CBL) tutorials are conducted in 14 dedicated rooms located on level 4 and level 5 of Building 69 at the St Lucia campus. These tutorials are delivered by a large team of dedicated medically-qualified casual tutors with support from the unit’s academic and professional staff.  When not used for CBL tutorials, these rooms are readily available to students for group study sessions. To book a CBL rooms outside of scheduled teaching activities, please email med.stlucia@uq.edu.au . In the email please include: full student name, student number, year level, date/s required (recurring or not), reason for booking and best contact number. 

The St Lucia Clinical Unit space on level 4 of Building 69 also has a dedicated student hub area which includes a study lounge and booths, computers, 24-hour usage lockers, a kitchenette, and a large seminar room that is also available for casual study sessions or event bookings.

The opening hours are as follows:

• St Lucia Clinical Unit Enquires Counter: 8.00am to 4:00pm - Monday to Friday
• Student Hub, CBL Rooms and Seminar Room: 6.00am to 11.00pm - Monday to Friday

The staff in the unit work closely with academics in the School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Chemical and Molecular Biosciences, as well as engaging clinicians from the Faculty’s hospitals and elsewhere to contribute to Phase 1. The academic staff also support several scholarly projects to enhance learning and teaching in the MD. For example, projects aimed to support students completing the USMLE, to enhance feedback from examinations by using online assessment, to train and support case-based learning tutors, and to support Integration of ethics to case-based learning.