Emergency Medicine Registrar

Description:

A spacious and modern, well-equipped referral facility providing a comprehensive range of services including; acute medical and surgical, obstetrics, paediatrics and a range of diagnostic and allied health services. Medical services include; respiratory, cardiac, chemotherapy, renal and palliative care. Surgical services include; general, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology and ophthalmology.

The hospital has a busy Emergency Department, a Level 3 Close Observation Unit, mental health unit and renal dialysis unit and all services are supported by local specialist physicians and several general practitioners.

Our client is seeking a Trainee to join their Emergency Medicine team in an unaccredited role for 2023/24. Led by the FACEM Director, the ED department is staffed by CMO’s. The Emergency Department redevelopment opened in 2018 as part of the new development of the Hospital including a new medical ward, operating theatres and HDU, is the Rural Referral Hospital for the region.
The busy ED has approximately 20,000 presentations per year with 25% admission rate and 25% paediatric presentations.

The ED has dedicated areas for resuscitation, acute presentations, ambulant and fast track presentations, paediatrics, dedicated metal health assessment and procedure room. ARRH ED is the tablelands telestroke centre and is actively involved in telehealth with the smaller rural hospitals.