Emergency Medicine Registrars 2024

**Employment Status**

Temporary Full Time

**Program**

Medicine, Specialist Medicine & Emergency Medicine

**Location**

All Sites

**Hours Per Fortnight**

3382

**Position Summary**

**Barwon Doctors**
- Extend your career with one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia
- Ongoing training and professional development in a supported work environment
- Lifestyle A stone throw from the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula and Great Ocean Road

**About Barwon Health**

With over 8,000 staff and more than 1,200 volunteers we provide services to our local community the G21 region which comprises the residents of the City of Greater Geelong, Colac Otway Shire, Golden Plains Shire, Borough of Queenscliff and Surf Coast Shire. Barwon Health has 1,016 beds across our sites, including 363 residential aged care beds.
- We provide services from University Hospital Geelong, the McKellar Centre in North Geelong, Barwon Health North, Swanston Centre and Mental Health Community Hubs across the region.
- We are one of four public radiation oncology providers in Victoria.
- We have a public private partnership with Epworth Healthcare to help deliver surgery and day oncology
- We are a major teaching hospital so have relationships with Deakin University, University of Melbourne and Monash University.

We have recently opened:

- Youang Surgery Centre
- Mental Health Hub in Emergency Department
- Aged Acute Psychiatry Facility at McKellar
- McKellar Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre

And we look forward to welcoming soon:

- Adrian Costa Clinical Trials Centre: Victoria’s first regional clinical trials centre
- Paediatric Emergency Hub in the Emergency Department at UHG
- Barwon Health Women’s & Children’s Hospital
- Early Parenting Centre at McKellar
- Barwon Health Surfcoast Hospital
- Central Geelong Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Community Hub

To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website.

**About the Role**

With the longest established Emergency Department in the state, Barwon Health prides itself on providing safe, quality healthcare to communities within Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula, Surf Coast and throughout the entire South West region of Victoria.

The Emergency Department at University Hospital Geelong treats close to 80,000 patients per year with 30% of presentations being paediatric. With access to all major specialties except Neurosurgery and Transplant Medicine, the variety and acuity of conditions treated ensures a stimulating work environment. Our geographic location results in high exposure to trauma cases, marine and land based toxinology and medical outreach to more peripheral centres.

It’s also a great place to enjoy out of work activities such as - water sports, mountain biking, performing arts and indulging in fine food and wine.

As an ED registrar, you have access to:

- 36 months accredited ED time as an ACEM trainee - we are a Tier 1 site and classified as Major Referral
- Accredited for Training Stage 4 in the revised ACEM training program
- A newly accredited Emergency Medicine Education Registrar position (6mths 0.5 FTE)
- 3 or 6 month rotations in:

- ICU, Anaesthetics, Paediatrics, General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- 6 month rotation at Colac Area Health (no night shift, evenings or weekends) - classified as Non ED time
- 2 days per week in Urgent Care Centre
- 1.5 days per week of anaesthetics with GP anaesthetist
- 0.5 days per week performing safety and quality activities
- Protected time to attend weekly registrar teaching at UHG
- Optional Secondment to Alice Springs ED
- 5 hours paid and protected teaching time per week
- Annual success in primary and fellowship examinations owing to longstanding robust preparation programs
- Research opportunities to fulfil trainee research requirement or to pursue academic interest
- Allocation of a mentor
- Allocation of a supervisor for mid and end of term feedback, whether on the ACEM training program or not
- Access to EMC/EMD/EMAD programs with high completion rate owing to the organisation by our Program Support Office and easy access to supervisors
- Linked accreditation if working at either of the Private Hospitals (St John of God, Epworth Geelong) which involves access to the teaching program at University Hospital Geelong

**About The Culture**

Our Consultant and Registrar staff group comprises of doctors who have trained all over Australia and the world with a variety of skills and work related interests. We are fortunate to work with engaged, friendly and experienced nurses, nurse practitioners and allied health staff. Our clerical staff, cleaners and patient service attendants work hard to keep the department going every day and our work could not be done without their support. Our team works hard to be solution focused with the aim of improving and progressing health care in the region, in order that patients are tr