Intern and Residents Guide 2012 - The Australian Medical Students ...

NSW
New South Wales
Prevocational trainees have two primary
obligations during their first two years as
a doctor. First, as an employee, there is a
service responsibility to patients and the
hospital. Second, all trainees are responsible
for the continuation of their medical education
through clinical practice and attendance at
educational activities. General registration
requires satisfactory completion of internship.
All doctors practicing in NSW need to be
registered with the Medical Board of Australia
prior to commencing work. Applications for
provisional registration must be lodged in the
state in which you will graduate, not the state
in which you apply for internship.
Prevocational trainees are allocated to a
network. Each trainee can negotiate with their
employing hospital network to be placed at
the home hospital of their choice, in which
they would like to spend the majority of their
prevocational training. This will be dependent
on the accreditation status of the home
hospital, the network’s requirements and
trainee preferences.
Term rotations will be organised by the medical
administration staff of the network. Trainees
in NSW are encouraged to undertake a
balanced mix of terms by working in a range of
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Standards, Accreditation and Allocation
Team Internship Enquiries:
(02) 9844 6562
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New South Wales
facilities including tertiary, metropolitan, outer
metropolitan and rural hospitals.
There are 16 hospital networks in NSW/ACT.
The Health Education and Training Institute
(HETI) only allocates prevocational trainees to
14 of these networks. ACT Health manages
allocation to Network 16, which incorporates
ACT facilities, however, HETI accredits
facilities and terms in all 16 networks through
the HETI Prevocational Accreditation Program.
The networks are structured to provide
a broad variety of training and teaching
experiences.
Applicants should be aware that allocation
within NSW may be to any of the 14 networks.
If allocated to a Sydney metropolitan hospital,
trainees may still be expected to undertake a
rural term during each year of prevocational
training.
It is important to note that there is a federal
initiative to deliver more doctors and better
services to rural and regional communities.
NSW HETI supports this initiative.
Minor realignments of hospitals within the
networks occur from time to time and new
sites may become accredited and be added
to networks. Thus there is a possibility that
rotations may occur to hospitals that are
not presently identified as a rotation for any
specific network.
The NSW Health Education and Training
Institute (HETI) is responsible for the allocation
process. Applications are submitted on-line,
however supporting documentation needs to
be sent to HETI by post.
To apply on-line, graduates must first register
with HETI. It is important to use an email
address which is checked on a regular basis
as the majority of correspondence between
applicants and HETI is done through the
website. There are four sections which need
to be completed in full. Required information
includes personal details, university
information and any special considerations
or joint applications. Other available applicant
types include full time, job share and parttime.
Applicants rank their hospital network
preferences from 1 to 14. Some applicants
require additional supporting documents so
check the website.
Interstate and international applicants are
required to pay a bond when applying to NSW.
This bond is only refunded after successful
completion of a NSW internship. The bond
price is usually around $400; check the HETI
website for confirmation.
Applications for the main round open 4th May
and close 8th June.
At the start of 2012 there will be 850 interns
places. Numbers will be released through
HETI on May 6.