Medical Research: Bench to Bedside Honours Program (RMH/WH)

COURSE CODE: 754 BM (Biomedical Science)

Download our current Honours Information and Projects Booklet for information about the sorts of Honours projects on offer through the Department. If you want more information, we encourage you to:

• make an appointment with a potential supervisor to discuss the research project(s) of interest.

If you wish to be considered for Honours in 2010, and you would like to undertake your project and coursework in an MDHS Department or affiliated institute, you will need to carry out a THREE STEP PROCESS.

STEP 1 

You will need to decide which Department or Institute(s), Supervisor(s) and Project(s) that you wish to apply for.  To do this, you must speak to potential supervisors. Department and Institute Honours project booklets and websites, the MDHS Honours expo, and individual information sessions held by Departments and Institutes are all ways of helping you make contact with potential Honours supervisors.

STEP 2

You must lodge an online application for Honours to the Faculty of Science through the SIS:

1. For current local students: https://sis.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/course-application.pl
2. For local students who have not studied at the University of Melbourne: https://sis.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/course-application.pl/register/

Once the above has been completed take a hard copy of the application to the Science Student Centre for confirmation as instructed.  You need to do this whether you are a BSc, BBiomedSci or external local student.  International students however will need to apply through the International Office http://www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/int/

After submitting your application, you will be sent an Application ID number by email.  You will need this Application ID for Step 3.  It is therefore essential that you carry out Step 2 BEFORE you carry out Step 3. Note that the closing date for the Step 2 Application is 20 Nov 2009.

STEP 3

After having decided on a project(s) and submitting your application through SIS, you will need to lodge your project preferences with MDHS through the Honours Application and Tracking System (HATS):   http://hats.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au  

It is essential that you have already identified which projects you wish to apply for by speaking to potential supervisors (i.e. Step 1) and have applied for Honours through SIS (i.e. Step 2) BEFORE you carry out Step 3.

To carry out STEP 3 in HATS you will need to:

1. Enter your Application ID into HATS.
2. Click on Preferences then Search Projects.  Use this search to make sure that the project(s) you wish to apply for are present in HATS.  If you cannot find the project you are interested in, you should contact the supervisor of these projects, who will be able to take steps to have the project details entered into HATS.
3. Click on Preferences then Lodge/Update Preferences to lodge your project preferences with HATS.  You can update/change your preferences as many times as you wish.  However, you must ensure that your final preference list (in order of 1-10; you must enter one preference, and you can enter up to ten) is lodged by 11:00pm on Sun, 29 Nov 2009.  This list will be supplied to Departments to allow them to carry out their selection process in early December 2009.

You will receive a round one offer letter for the highest preference project you have been offered by mail before Christmas.  You can choose to accept the offer or not.  If you choose not to accept, you will be considered for selection by Departments for the second round of selection in mid January.

PLEASE NOTE: The RMH / WH Clinical Departments Cluster Honours Projects are offered through the Department of Medicine (RMH/WH), University of Melbourne.

See example below of search result for Honours project under Medicine (RMH/WH):

Project Name: Sodium channels in epilepsy
Department: Medicine (RMH/WH)
Supervisor: Chris French, Terence O’Brien

KEY DATES

Aug-Nov 2009: Contact potential supervisors to discuss honours projects (Step 1)
20 Nov 2009: Closing date for Honours application through SIS (Step 2)
29 Nov 2009, 11.00pm: Closing date for project preference submission through HATS (Step 3)
3rd week Dec 2009: First round of offer letters sent by mail to students
6 Jan 2010: Closing date for acceptance/rejection by students of First Round offers
11 Jan 2010: Second round of selection and mailing of offer letters begins
Mid-late Feb 2010: Honours 2010 begins (check with individual Departments/Institutes for specific starting date and other details