Internship Guide 2020 - Updated
***SECOND RELEASE WITH UPDATED INFORMATION*** The official guide to the 2021 Internship year. The 2020 Internship Guide was compiled entirely by medical students and junior doctors who have volunteered their time to ensure it is the most up to date source of information relevant to our final year medical students. We hope that the information within this guide will assist you in your internship application. Good luck, Class of 2020!
***SECOND RELEASE WITH UPDATED INFORMATION***
The official guide to the 2021 Internship year. The 2020 Internship Guide was compiled entirely by medical students and junior doctors who have volunteered their time to ensure it is the most up to date source of information relevant to our final year medical students. We hope that the information within this guide will assist you in your internship application. Good luck, Class of 2020!
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NORTHEAST<br />
HEALTH<br />
<strong>2020</strong> INTERNSHIP<br />
POSITIONS<br />
18*<br />
*NHW were directly recruited to 9<br />
of these posts with the remaining<br />
9 rotating to Northeast Health from<br />
the Murray to the Mountains (M2M)<br />
Program (6) and The Royal Melbourne Hospital (3)<br />
NETWORK TRAINING SITES<br />
Melbourne Health, Mercy Hospital, Northern Hospital,<br />
Southern Health and Murray to the Mountains<br />
(M2M) program supply Interns to Northeast Health<br />
Wangaratta on rotation. Northeast Health Wangaratta<br />
(NHW) has strong links with the Murray City Country<br />
Coast (MCCC) GP Training Network<br />
ROTATIONS AVAILABLE<br />
Emergency, General Medicine, General Surgery or<br />
Orthopaedics, Rehabilitation (non-core)<br />
BASIC INFORMATION<br />
NHW is a leading healthcare service committed<br />
to providing high quality care for our community.<br />
In recognition of our service excellence NHW was<br />
awarded the Premiers Award for Regional Health<br />
Service of the year in 2014. Our facility is a modern<br />
222 bed hospital providing emergency and elective<br />
clinical services to a primary catchment of 28,000<br />
people and a secondary catchment of approximately<br />
100,000. NHW is a major referral facility for the Central<br />
Hume Region with a budget in excess of $100 million<br />
and employs over 1,200 dedicated employees.<br />
The hospital is located at the foot of the Australian<br />
Alps on the Hume Highway, and is a designated<br />
Regional Trauma Service. The Emergency Department<br />
at NHW is the only 24 hour emergency medical facility<br />
between Melbourne and Albury-Wodonga and last year<br />
provided care to over 22,000 patient presentations.<br />
REASONS TO APPLY<br />
The health service offers supervision by trained<br />
specialists, a supportive environment with dedicated<br />
multi-disciplinary teams, and an excellent teaching<br />
program. In addition, weekly JMO education programs<br />
are provided to interns and residents by the University<br />
of Melbourne and workshops are available through<br />
Murray to Mountain Program.<br />
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NORTHERN<br />
HEALTH<br />
PREDICTED 2021 INTERNSHIP<br />
POSITIONS<br />
NETWORK TRAINING SITES<br />
Austin Hospital, Northern Hospital, Mercy Hospital,<br />
Bundoora Extended Care Centre, Broadmeadows<br />
Health Service, Bendigo Health, Echuca Regional<br />
Health Services, Wimmera Health Care Group<br />
ROTATIONS AVAILABLE<br />
Aged Care, Anaesthetics/Pre-Admission Clinic,<br />
Orthopaedics, Urology, Vascular/Thoracics,<br />
Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, General Surgery, General<br />
Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Medical<br />
Obstetrics.<br />
BASIC INFORMATION<br />
Interns at Northern Health are provided a supportive<br />
and safe environment for internship, including weekly<br />
mandatory teaching sessions, an engaged and<br />
organised Medical Education Unit with a dedicated<br />
Supervisor of Intern Training, and a well resourced<br />
Medical Workforce Unit.<br />
REASONS TO APPLY<br />
Northern Health’s campuses provide a unique mix<br />
of services including medical, surgical, emergency,<br />
intensive and coronary care, paediatrics, women’s and<br />
maternal health, mental health, aged care, palliative<br />
care, and rehabilitation programs. The health service<br />
has passionate and dedicated clinicians who offer<br />
learning and training to interns.<br />
Here, interns and residents are known to their teams<br />
and are not just a face in the crowd. The hospital also<br />
employs a dedicated Intern Training Supervisor who<br />
is instrumental in organising innovative and practical<br />
training programs, and supports the welfare of junior<br />
doctors.<br />
The Teaching on the Run programs are conducted<br />
for interns, in addition to surgical workshops in<br />
collaboration with Austin Health at the College of<br />
Surgeons Skills Laboratory. Besides that, leadership<br />
and management courses are offered to interns and<br />
residents throughout the year.<br />
2019 CONTACT DETAILS<br />
Ms Merryn Lodding<br />
Medical Workforce Manager<br />
Phone: (03) 5722 5066<br />
Email: medicalworkforce@nhw.org.au<br />
CONTACT DETAILS<br />
Junior Medical Workforce Unit<br />
Phone: (03) 8405 8209 / (03) 8405 8000<br />
Email: northerndoctorsworkforce@nh.org.au<br />
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