2026 Intensive Care Transition Year Fellow

Job Requisition ID: 4571
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
- Employment Type: Full Time Fixed Term
- Posting Date: 20 May 2025

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**About the Role**

This Transition Year fellow position at Monash Medical Centre and Victorian Heart Hospital has been developed in accordance with the college requirement to allow completion of training and admission to the college of intensive care medicine for trainees registering after 2014. The aim is to introduce consultant activities into the trainee’s experience in a structured manner through supervised practice initially, and progress to mínimal supervision and as required supervision, as would be seen for junior consultants. The structured introduction will focus on:

- Supervised ward rounds
- On call from home
- Non-clinical portfolio

**About Monash Medical Centre (Clayton) & Victorian Heart Hospital - Intensive Care Units**

Monash Medical Centre Intensive Care Unit Environment houses a 26-bed unit operating as two pods run by two teams of multidisciplinary staff including Intensivists, Senior and Junior Registrars, Residents, Physiotherapists, Nursing Staff and Pharmacists. The Unit has a dedicated outreach consultant role Monday to Friday in hours, weekends only 2 consultants, one for each pod with outreach support alternating daily for the 2 days. The unit is accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) for General Training (Core Intensive Care /C24) as well as fulfilling the CICM requirements for subspecialty exposure to thoracic surgical, Neurology and Neurosurgical Intensive Care. The Monash Medical Centre Intensive Care Unit also provides a state-wide Obstetric Intensive Care Referral service, a Renal / Renal-Pancreas Transplant service and supports a comprehensive range of medical and surgical subspecialties.

The** Victorian Heart Hospital Intensive Care** unit is a 16-bed ICU specialising in cardiology/Cardiac surgical ICU. The ICU is currently funded for 6 beds and run by a multidisciplinary staff similar to Monash Medical Centre. Victorian Heart Hospital ICU has a dedicated outreach team and ECMO team 24/7. The unit is affiliated with Monash Medical Centre and accredited by CICM for Cardiac surgical unit.

**Monash Health Intensive Care** is delighted to have secured funding for a state-of-the-art critical care ultrasound simulator. This is the fully optioned CAE Vimedix package which includes training for transthoracic, trans-oesophageal, pleural, lung and eFAST ultrasound imaging. This new simulator will complement the current excellent and long-standing Monash Health critical care ultrasound education program led by our highly skilled team of sonographer educators. Monash Health Intensive has established a clinical partnership with the Monash University School of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences. We developed a first novel critical care lung ultrasound course and the aim is to develop series of courses with a number of intensive care clinical partners, and with Monash University as the credentialing body.

**Subspecialty programs include**:

- Provision of Critical Care US and ECHO within the unit
- Combined training program with Sonographers and Intensive Care Specialist with special interest and further qualifications in Critical Care US & ECHO
- Research
- ECMO
- Education - Part 1 and 2 CICM preparation
- Organ Donation
- Infection prevention
- Specialty liaison portfolios for Cardiothoracic surgery, Neurosurgery, Infectious diseases, Anaesthesia, Emergency, and Obstetrics

**Patient Exposure**

**Monash Medical Centre (Clayton Campus)**:

- 640-bed acute adult hospital
- Over 1600 ICU admissions a year
- Over 4500 external emergency responses per year
- Neurology / Neurosurgery
- Non trauma centre