Ed Hmo

Description:

Austin Emergency Department is one of Melbourne’s busiest, seeing around 90,000 patients annually. We have access to a wide range

of rotations for our Doctors. For Registrars, we offer the standard rotations as well as exclusive Special Skills Terms (see below) that are

available only at the Austin and boast regular hours with no night shifts. Whilst employed in the Emergency Department, registrars will

usually work a rotating roster including day, evening and night duty. The roster will involve weekend and Public Holiday duty. There is no

on-call component. Whilst on rotation to other Departments, there may be an on-call component in addition to rostered hours.

We have built one of Melbourne’s biggest and most effective Short Stay Units where opportunities arise to practice and learn clinical

medicine in a more controlled environment. Our Fast Track area is staffed by Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists, Nurse

Practitioners as well as Doctors and provides ample opportunities to develop procedural skills. The Emergency Department is separated

geographically into Adults and Paediatrics;there are ample opportunities to work shifts in the dedicated paediatric area to work towards

completion of the paediatric logbook.

Our department has a team of Emergency Physicians dedicated to Junior Medical Staff Education. For HMOs, there are weekly

Emergency Medicine tutorials and hands-on skills sessions in addition to the education offered at a hospital-level. HMOs are most

welcome to attend the weekly Registrar teaching.There is Emergency Physician presence 0800 to 2300 daily and on-call 2300 to 0800.

Our Emergency Department values the wellbeing and health of its staff and has a wellness committee called TeamED, the ED Social

Club and a departmental peer support program called WEEPS available for all staff to participate in as they wish.Our Emergency

Department values the wellbeing and health of its staff and has a wellness committee (TeamED), the ED Social Club and a departmental

peer support program (WEEPS) available for all staff to participate in as they wish.