Beefed-up security and police will patrol the streets around Sunshine Hospital in Melbourne's west after two young doctors were brutally assaulted in the space of a week after finishing work.

A geriatric registrar was walking to his car on Monday afternoon when he was attacked from behind by four young men in broad daylight about 5.20pm on Hibiscus Avenue, around the corner from the hospital in St Albans.

Sunshine Hospital. Credit:Fairfax Media

The doctor, who spoke to The Age on the condition of anonymity, said he tripped and fell to the ground, before he was kicked to the face three times by the attackers. They got away with his phone, wallet and bag, and he was treated at Sunshine Hospital for soft tissue injuries and a broken tooth.

The assault came less than a week after a junior doctor was attacked by four young men matching the same description. That doctor had just finished his shift in the paediatric emergency department about 11pm last Tuesday when he was marched at knifepoint to his car. The four assailants drove off in his white Subaru Impreza sedan.