2024 Intensive Care Transition Year Fellow

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 60731

**About Monash Health**
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, Victorian Heart Hospital, Sandringham Hospital Maternity services and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

**About Monash Doctors Workforce**
There are more than 1,900 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

**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
Nonclinical portfolio

**About Monash Medical Centre (Clayton) & Victorian Heart Hospital - Intensive Care Unit**
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 lung US and echo within the unit with technicians
USS course certificate for ICU trainees
Research
ECMO
Education - Part 1 and 2 CICM preparation
Organ Donation
Infection prevention
Specialty liaison portfolios for Cardiothoracic surgery, Neurosurgery, Infectious diseases, Anaesthesia and Emergency

**_Patient exposure:_**
600 bed acute adult hospital
Over 2000 admissions a year
Over 4500 external emergency responses / year
Adult Cardiothoracic surgery Intensive Care
550 admissions a year
Includes aortic surgery, CABG's and valve surgery
Tier 3 centre in the Victorian ECMO service
Neurology / Neurosurgery
Non trauma centre
Clot retrieval centre
Complex high risk obstetric centre

**What you need**
- A medical qualification (MBBS or equivalent) with current registration the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APRHA)
- A current Victorian Working with Children Check Employee (WWCC)
- Previous experience i