College of Health and Medicine (University of Tasmania)

The College of Health and Medicine is a college of the University of Tasmania that incorporates the School of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Wicking Centre and Menzies Institute for Medical Research.

The College incorporates medicine, pharmacy, psychology, paramedicine, nursing, laboratory medicine, allied health sciences and rural health into its curricula and research.

[1] The first medical education offered at the University of Tasmania was the School of Medicine.

The School was founded in 1965 to response to a workforce shortage of doctors in Tasmania.

The Institute focuses on five major research themes: public health and primary care, brain diseases and injury, heart and blood vessels, bone and muscle health, and cancer, genetics and immunology.

The MS1 Building of the Medical Science Precinct and home to the College of Health and Medicine [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The MS2 Building of the Medical Science Precinct in Hobart [ 4 ] [ 5 ]