Trainee Positions
10 Registrar positions - 6 months or 12 months
Many positions are paired with other Health Services to meet core training requirements in 12 month positions by doing 6 months at each site:
- Werribee Gen Paeds / Mercy NICU (acute)
- Werribee Gen Paeds / Werribee Community
- Werribee Gen Paeds / Sunshine Paeds ED (acute)
- Werribee Gen Paeds / Shepparton Gen Paeds (rural)
Trainee Level
- Preferably Advanced Trainee (post FRACP exams)
- Will also consider PEM Trainees, International Medical Graduates, and Continuing Basic Trainees
Contact
- Dr Kathy McMahon Kathryn.McMahon@mercy.com.au
Roster and on-call
- Registrar - 10 registrar rotating roster including Paediatric Ward, SCN and birth suite, Outpatients and teaching.
Wards
- 12 paediatric beds
- 16 bed level 4 SCN (4,000 deliveries per year)
- Busy expanding Emergency Department
Junior Staff
- 9 Residents
- 1 Intern
- 11 Registrars
Senior Staff
- 11 senior medical staff with 2 on-site during business hours. On-call after 5pm.
Clinics
- 7 General Paediatric clinics; 2 Telehealth clinics; 4 Rapid Review clinics - weekly
- Out of Home Care clinic - monthly
- Refugee Health clinic - monthly
- School clinics at multi-cultural community hubs in schools (3 sites) - weekly
Education and Teaching
- Weekly 5 hour, phone-free registrar teaching including:
- case presentations
- journal club
- visiting speakers
- M&M
- radiology meeting
- simulation
- Medical student and resident teaching
Pay
- As per award
Accommodation / Accessibility
- After night shift, there is a bedroom in the resident quarters that tired registrars may use
- Easy 30 minute drive from Melbourne CBD
- Hoppers Crossing train station is across the road from the hospital