Medical Education

Medical education is a vital part of the mission of Auburn Health Services. We seek to train future generations of compassionate, inclusive, and patient-centred physicians in our unique clinical environments. Training at Auburn Health Services sites provides trainees with distinct perspectives of working in the high-acuity, fast-paced, public medical centre environment of Auburn General Hospital as well as the community-based setting of Auburn Academy's clinics.

Pre-health Programmes

We offer a number of programmes for students interested in pursuing a career in healthcare. The Volunteer Services office at Auburn General coordinates our volunteer programmes, which offer the opportunity to assist physicians, nurses, and other medical staff in the emergency department, inpatient wards, and outpatient clinics at Auburn General and Auburn Academy. Interested Auburn Academy students should apply via the academy's internship programme. Other students must visit the Volunteer Services office at Auburn General.

Through the Volunteer Services office, students may also volunteer to assist with clinical research projects occurring at Auburn General. We also administer various other volunteer programmes, including for musicians.

All volunteers are subject to an application process, in addition to background checks and health screenings.

Auburn Health Services does not organise opportunities to shadow physicians or other healthcare professionals. Shadowing arrangements must be made directly with a willing Auburn Health Services medical staff member. Observers will be subject to the same onboarding process as volunteers.

Undergraduate Medical Education

Auburn Health Services partners with several medical schools and other healthcare training programmes to provide clinical training sites for medical students and other healthcare trainees. With our unique public medical centre operating model, we offer clinical environments distinct from the typical private teaching hospital, providing other perspectives to trainees.

Graduate Medical Education

Auburn General Hospital offers graduate medical education in a full spectrum of medical specialties. Each of our specialty care departments (including emergency medicine), as well as our primary care (paediatric & adult) departments, houses a graduate medical education programme positioned to train excellent physicians capable of compassionately and inclusively treating diverse patients and communities in a busy academic medical centre. As a major trauma centre and pioneering academic medical centre, Auburn General also prepares trainees to treat even the most severe conditions and to remain at the forefront of modern clinical medicine. Certain specialties also offer training at Auburn Academy clinics, which provide alternative care settings similar to smaller, community-based practice.

Our graduate medical education programmes are operated by Auburn Health Services with administrative support from Auburn Academy. The application process is accordingly administered by Auburn Academy.