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Eastern Health

Trainee Positions

12 positions across the following options

  • Eastern Health Gen Paeds - Senior Registrar - 12 months part-time
  • Eastern Health Gen Paeds / Monash Newborn - 12 months (6 months each rotation)
  • Eastern Health Gen Paeds / Eastern Health CYMHS - 12 months (6 months each rotation)
  • Eastern Health Gen Paeds - 6 or 12 month positions available

Trainee Level

  • Preferably Advanced Trainee (post FRACP exams)
  • Will consider Continuing Basic Trainees, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Trainees and International Medical Graduates with sufficient experience in neonatal care and emergency paediatrics

Contact

  • Dr Alice Fang   alice.fang@easternhealth.org.au

Roster and on-call

  • Rotating roster 24/7 through paediatric ward, SCN, and outpatients

Wards

Box Hill Hospital:

  • 16 paediatric beds (Paed Med, Eating Disorder, Paed Surgery, ENT, Orthopaedic, Plastics)
  • 12 bed level 4 SCN (2700 deliveries per year)
  • Very busy Emergency Department

Angliss Hospital:

  • 8 paediatric beds (SSU / CDU)
  • 8 bed level 3 SCN (2300 deliveries per year)
  • Busy Emergency Department

Junior Staff

  • 12 residents (6 at each hospital site)
  • 12 registrars
    • 9 appointed by Eastern Health
    • 2 Victorian Basic Training Consortium registrars, 1 rotating registrar from RCH - not appointed via this process

Senior Staff

  • 20 senior medical staff

Clinics

  • All outpatients have direct consultant supervision
    • Gen Paeds clinics
    • Developmental Assessment clinic
    • Eating Disorder clinic
    • Allergy clinic
    • Dermatology clinic
    • Paediatric Indigenous Health Clinic

Education and Teaching

  • Protected weekly teaching session
  • Case presentations
  • Radiology meetings
  • M&M
  • Medical student and HMO teaching

Pay

  • As per award 

 

    Eastern Health - Great Care, Everywhere, Every Time

    Eastern Health is one of Melbourne's largest metropolitan public health services. It provides a comprehensive range of acute, subacute, and community services to a diverse community population. 

    Paediatric Registrars will rotate through Box Hill Hospital and Angliss Hospital.  Registrars are supported by friendly, enthusiastic paediatric consultants 24 hours, 7 days a week.  The busy units provide experiences including acute assessment, inpatient general paediatrics, eating disorders, and neonatal medicine.  There is ample opportunity for registrars to participate in clinics.

    Box Hill and Angliss Hospitals are both accredited for Advanced Training in General Paediatrics with a perinatal component.

    Eastern Health CYMHS is accredited for Developmental and Psychosocial training.