Provisional Fellow

**WSLHD - JMO - Provisional Fellow - Infectious Diseases/ Critical Care**

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various
**Remuneration**:
- **Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM15729

**Where you'll be working**

his position is set at Westmead Hospital, in CIDM. This unit provides care and conducts clinical and basic research. Specifically, the Fellow will be based in CIDM and in the Westmead Intensive Care Unit during the critical care rotation (covering ICU and Haem/ BMT) in addition will provide surgical, medical consultation and ward based care during structured rotations.

Westmead Hospital is a key facility of one of Australia’s largest major health and medical research precincts and is the principal referral hospital for Western Sydney Local Health District providing district level health services to Parramatta, Holroyd and The Hills Shire LGAs including tertiary and quaternary services to greater western Sydney, greater metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW and other states. Westmead Hospital provides approximately 638 acute overnight, 30 day only and 52 subacute beds. The Westmead Health Precinct currently under development is envisaged to be the biggest hospital building project undertaken in Western Sydney and will transform the iconic but ageing Westmead Hospital into an innovative, contemporary and integrated centre that will continue to deliver high quality healthcare and expand the education, health and research capability of the area.

Westmead Hospital is a leading centre of research, training and specialisations in all fields of medicine and dentistry, providing services in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, kidney and pancreas transplantation, cancer care, obstetrics and gynaecology, neonatal intensive care, trauma, bone marrow transplantation, critical care, aged care and rehabilitation, adult acute psychiatry (networked with the co-located Cumberland Hospital) as well as other highly specialised medical and surgical services.

The Westmead Hospital Emergency Department (ED) operates 24 hours, 7 days per week and manages all types and levels of illnesses and injuries. As one of six major trauma centres in the state, the ED also cares for people with the most severe physical injuries.

Westmead Hospital ED presentation numbers are among the highest in the state.

Critical care services within Westmead Hospital are provided by the Intensive care unit and the medical and surgical high dependency units. Other specialist services that provide a high dependency level of care for patients within their clinical specialty wards include the Coronary Care Unit, Renal and Pancreas Transplantation and Haematology.

Over 120 different outpatient clinics for a number of different specialities and services provide ambulatory care to approximately 5,000 attendances per month.

Westmead Hospital is one of Australia’s largest centres for postgraduate training to specialist levels in all fields with over 100 PhD students and other postgraduate students supervised by Westmead Hospital scientists and clinicians. Westmead is home to internationally recognised institutes of health research, the most prominent being the Westmead Millennium Institute. The _Westmead Millennium Institute _is one of the largest medical research institutes in Australia, conducting research into a wide range of human disorders affecting both adults and children, including infectious and immune diseases, cancer and leukaemia, liver and metabolic diseases, eye and brain related disorders and heart and respiratory disorders.

**What you'll be doing**

The primary purpose of the role is to provide a rounded exposure in Infectious Diseases for those with experience in Intensive Care Medicine or other branches of Internal Medicine as well as those seeking to undertake clinical Infectious Diseases as a career.
Develop high-level skills and clinical expertise in the pathophysiology of critical sepsis in immune compromised and in previously well patients, including the diagnosis and management of infection involving all organ systems.
Develop skills in interpreting the microbiology of the critical care environment and of critically ill patients, especially with regard to new diagnostic and surveillance tools becoming available.
To satisfy the requirements of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians SAC for Infectious Diseases and for the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM) or the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) this rotation gives exposure to all aspects of medicine in a wide variety of medical disciplines and surgical disciplines. Infection involves every specialty and every organ system. The CCID trainee will not only see critically ill patients of the hospital (every admission to ICU and those Haematology/ BMT patients with complicated active infections or needing consideration of prophylaxis etc), but will provide in-patient supervision for patients with complex infections, and ID consu