The first two pre clinical years of the course will be based at the Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds. Waurn Ponds, one of Geelong's western suburbs, is eight kilometres from the city centre and has good access to the nearby Surf Coast.
Geelong is well served by a local bus network, a new highway, a fast train service to Melbourne and a new airport at Avalon. Travel between the Waurn Ponds campus and the city's main hospital is a short journey by car or bus.
The Deakin Medical School is located in an extensively renovated building which has been purpose designed to deliver the medical course.

Student Accommodation is available at the Waurn Ponds Campus. The residences are set in a picturesque landscape close to all of the University’s main facilities.  Further information about Deakin's student residence is available online.

Accommodation off-campus

On-campus student residences are in high demand and have limited places. Many students prefer to rent private accommodation to meet their housing needs. Properties located off-campus are managed by the Deakin University Student Association. The DUSA4U Housing Service captures and advertises much of the available accommodation offered by the community to students.
For further information, visit the DUSA4U website.

Clinical Schools

Students will be allocated to one of the three Clinical Schools in Western Victoria and one in metropolitan Melbourne. A small cohort of students will complete Year 3 in general practices in the region.

The four Clinical Schools are:

• The Greater Green Triangle Rural Clinical School. Clinical School staff and students will be based at Warrnambool Hospital.
• The Grampians Rural Clinical School. Clinical School staff and students will be based at Ballarat Hospital
• The Greater Geelong Regional School Clinical. Clinical School staff and students will be based at Geelong Hospital (approximately 50% of students); and
• Eastern Health Clinical School. Clinical School staff and students will be based at Box Hill Hospital.

Deakin Medical School has been allocated $18.1 million by the Victorian Department of Human Services to build infrastructure for medical education in hospitals and other health care facilities affiliated with these Clinical Schools. The School is working with health services to completed this work in time for the arrival of the first cohort of students at the clinical schools in 2010.