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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ROYAL DARWIN<br />
HOSPITAL<br />
PREDICTED 2021 INTERNSHIP<br />
POSITIONS<br />
For Alice Springs and Royal Darwin<br />
Hospitals combined<br />
*24 of these positions will be taken<br />
up by NT Scholarship Holders<br />
REASONS TO APPLY<br />
Weekly protected specific Intern training, strong<br />
focus on Indigenous Health, infectious diseases/<br />
tropical medicine. Formal and informal teaching<br />
within rotations from consultants and registrars.<br />
Weekly hospital grand rounds. There is also the Top<br />
End Medical Society that offers peer support and<br />
organises regular social events. On-site recreational<br />
facilities including gym, squash courts and 25m<br />
outdoor pool.<br />
Royal Darwin Hospital<br />
NETWORK TRAINING SITES<br />
Interns sites: RDH, Palmerston Regional Hospital,<br />
Katherine Hospital, Gove District Hospital<br />
PGY2+ sites: all above, and Darwin Private Hospital<br />
ROTATIONS AVAILABLE<br />
General Medicine, General Surgery, Emergency<br />
medicine, Renal, Cardiology, Paediatrics, Maxillofacial<br />
surgery, Vascular surgery, Gove District Hospital<br />
(half ED, half Medicine), and General Medicine at<br />
Palmerston Regional Hospital<br />
BASIC INFORMATION<br />
The Royal Darwin Hospital has approximately 363<br />
beds and more than 1 700 staff and provides a broad<br />
range of services in all specialty areas to the Darwin<br />
urban population as well as serving as a referral<br />
centre to the Top End of the Northern Territory,<br />
Western Australia and South-East Asia. The Top End<br />
population serviced by the hospital is approximately<br />
150 000.<br />
Royal Darwin Hospital is the largest teaching hospital<br />
in the Northern Territory and is also recognised<br />
as Australia’s National Critical Care and Trauma<br />
Response Centre. The hospital’s vision is to be<br />
recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a<br />
centre of excellence for the provision of high quality<br />
healthcare to the community and to fulfil its role as the<br />
National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre.<br />
CONTACT DETAILS<br />
Junior Medical Officer Workforce Coordinator<br />
Email: hospitaldoctors@nt.gov.au<br />
RDH JMO Workforce Consultant<br />
Email: RDHJMOWorkforce.DoH@nt.gov.au<br />
Medical Education Unit THS<br />
Email: MedicalEducationUnit.THS@nt.gov.au<br />
ALICE SPRINGS<br />
HOSPITAL<br />
Alice Springs<br />
NETWORK TRAINING SITES<br />
Alice Springs Hospital and Tennant Creek Hospital<br />
ROTATIONS AVAILABLE<br />
There are 4 rotations of 3 months duration.<br />
Rotations are core and non-core rotations covering<br />
Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, General<br />
Surgery, Renal, (all core rotations) plus Paediatrics,<br />
Orthopaedics, Intensive Care Medicine and Tennant<br />
Creek Hospital.<br />
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