Intern and Residents Guide 2012 - The Australian Medical Students ...
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ContACt detAils<br />
Ms Sarah McConchie<br />
DiT Manager, <strong>Medical</strong> Workforce Unit<br />
Austin Health<br />
Ph: 9496 6813<br />
sarah.mcconchie@austin.org.au<br />
BALLART HEALTH<br />
26 interns PrediCted<br />
rotAtions<br />
Aged Care, Cardiology, Emergency<br />
Medicine, surgery, emergency,<br />
orthopaedics, ENT surgery, geriatrics,<br />
neurology, cardiology<br />
netWork trAining sites<br />
Ballarat Health Services<br />
Ballarat Base Hospital<br />
Queen Elizabeth Centre<br />
Grampians Psychiatric Services<br />
bASiC infOrMAtiOn<br />
• Ballarat Health Services comprises of 221<br />
acute beds <strong>and</strong> 70 sub-acute<br />
• Has new emergency, critical care, ambulatory<br />
<strong>and</strong> geriatric services<br />
• <strong>Intern</strong> teaching time is allocated <strong>and</strong><br />
protected from pagers!<br />
reASOnS tO APPly<br />
• <strong>The</strong>re are three core rotations (general<br />
medicine, general surgery <strong>and</strong> emergency)<br />
with two specialty rotations, allocated by<br />
mutual agreement<br />
• Shared accommodation available or $60<br />
subsidy per week if renting externally<br />
• Two weeks leave during the clinical year <strong>and</strong><br />
three weeks at completion of intern year<br />
• Paired applications are accepted <strong>and</strong> every<br />
effort is made to accommodate paired annual<br />
leave<br />
ContACt detAils<br />
Dianne Kearney, Administrative Assistant ,<br />
Ph: 5320 6748 E:diannek@bhs.org.au<br />
Linda Danvers, Deputy DMS,<br />
Ph: 5320 4539 E: lindada@bhs.org.au<br />
BARWON HEALTH<br />
36 interns PrediCted<br />
rotAtions<br />
General medicine, general surgery,<br />
emergency, gastroenterology,<br />
orthopaedics, psychiatry, radiation<br />
oncology/ palliative care, renal<br />
medicine, urology, cardiology,<br />
cardiothoracic surgery, geriatrics,<br />
medical oncology, neurology,<br />
nights medical/surgery, obstetrics<br />
<strong>and</strong> gynaecology, paediatrics,<br />
palliative care, plastic surgery, rural<br />
placements (Warrnambool, Hamilton),<br />
GP (Camperdown, Warrnambool,<br />
Hamilton).<br />
netWork trAining sites<br />
Geelong Hospital<br />
South West Healthcare<br />
Warrnambool<br />
Hamilton Base Hospital<br />
Camperdown<br />
bASiC infOrMAtiOn<br />
Barwon Health is the largest Regional Health<br />
Service provider in Victoria. It offers an extensive<br />
range of general <strong>and</strong> specialist hospital,<br />
rehabilitation, residential <strong>and</strong> community services<br />
to over 93% of the Geelong community <strong>and</strong><br />
an increasing number of residents across the<br />
Barwon South-Western region. Barwon Health<br />
has a total of 1,000 beds (with more being<br />
added for 2013).<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is an active Board of Graduate Studies<br />
with a structured training program for HMO’s.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are postgraduate gr<strong>and</strong> rounds, clinical<br />
meetings, lunchtime tutorials <strong>and</strong> a FRACP<br />
trainee lecture series. A fortnightly newsletter<br />
is published listing the postgraduate activities.<br />
Postgraduate Training Positions are also<br />
available. Furthermore, a variety of speakers<br />
both nationally <strong>and</strong> internationally renowed in<br />
their fields are invited to give a presentation on<br />
their work on Tuesdays with provision for interns<br />
<strong>and</strong> residents to attend.<br />
reASOnS tO APPly<br />
Barwon Health, is a fantastic place to start <strong>and</strong><br />
further a doctors career. It is one of Australia’s<br />
leaders in acute pain. <strong>The</strong>re is currently a<br />
5-year Rural Generalist pathway being created<br />
for doctors pursuing the role of a country GP,<br />
an area of national shortage amongst other<br />
<strong>Intern</strong> <strong>and</strong> Resident’s <strong>Guide</strong> 41<br />
VIC
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