Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister, by gazette notice, may approve that a hospital be a teaching hospital in respect of--
(a) all branches of medicine or dentistry or such branches of medicine or dentistry as are specified in the notification; or
(b) training that is ancillary to those branches; or
(c) training in such courses and for such purposes at such universities or other educational institutions as may be specified in the notification.
(2) Prior to making the approval--
(a) the Minister may have regard to any recommendation of the Senate of any university established in Queensland, or the governing body of any university or other educational institution approved pursuant to this section, in respect of which the hospital in question is to be approved as a training school; and
(b) if the hospital in question is not subject to this Act--the consent of the governing body of the hospital to the proposed approval must be obtained.
(3) A teaching hospital is a centre of excellence in patient care, teaching and research and the designation of a hospital as a teaching hospital will be based on its having at least 1 academic unit in a major health discipline, a significant body of recognised research and a major role in postgraduate education and training.
(4) The Minister may, by gazette notice, declare--
(a) a university or other educational institution established in Queensland; or
(b) a course of study within that university or institution;
to be an approved university, educational institution or course for the purposes of subsection (5).
(5) A student who is admitted to or enrolled with an approved university or approved educational institution to study an approved course--
(a) is entitled to attend at the hospital approved as a teaching hospital in respect of the university or institution into which that student is admitted or enrolled, for instruction in connection with that approved course; and
(b) may be admitted to such portions of the clinical practice or departments of that approved hospital as may be necessary for the carrying out of the student's special duties; and
(c) is subject to any statutes and regulations made by the governing body of that university or institution and to any regulations or by-laws made by the governing body of that hospital.