Alice Springs Hospital Career Opportunities

 Alice Springs Hospital (ASH) is the major acute hospital for Central Australia, serving up to 60,000 people including visitors to the region. Currently the Hospital has 177 beds increasing to 189 beds by July 2009 and this will include a newly developed 12 bed short stay unit and a 20 bed Continuing Care Ward. ASH provides a range of specialist services including General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Surgery (including Ophthalmology, ENT and Orthopaedics), Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Nephrology. There is a very active Renal Unit with onsite dialysis facilities and a 26 chair satellite dialysis unit. An additional dialysis unit with a 16 chair capacity is to be constructed by 2010. A number of specialist services are provided on a visiting basis. The range of clinical work is unique, with a strong focus on indigenous health and infectious diseases. 

Alice Springs Hospital is a teaching hospital, and a campus of the Northern Territory Clinical School of the Flinders University of South Australia. Conjoint or honorary academic appointments have been made in the Department of Paediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. The Centre for Remote Health, a joint venture between the Charles Darwin University and Flinders University of South Australia is adjacent to the hospital. The Hospital has also entered into a new affiliation with the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute for research and clinical services for cardiovascular disease and diabetics. A new building is being constructed on the campus to accommodate the Baker IDI Institute.

Alice Springs Hospital is accredited by the Northern Territory Postgraduate Medical Council on behalf of the Medical Board of the Northern Territory for intern and junior medical officer training, and has an active clinical training program. It provides excellent clinical training opportunities and experience relevant to rural general practice, and is an affiliated teaching hospital of the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales and Queensland.

Interns

There are up to twelve positions are available, each with core terms of Emergency, Medicine and Surgery (including Orthopaedics). The other term that may be offered is Paediatrics. Accreditation has been requested for terms in Renal Medicine, General Practice, Psychiatry and Intensive Care Medicine. 

These rotations fulfill the requirements of Medical Board registration and provide excellent "hands on" clinical experience in a well supervised environment.

For more information and application forms please see the intern page.

OR contact: Dr Paul Helliwell, Consultant, Emergency Department through Switchboard on +61 8 8951 7777

Resident Medical Officers

There are 29 RMO positions with three to six month rotations through General Medicine, Renal Medicine, Surgery incorporating ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Two positions are filled on rotations from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth. In conjunction with NT General Practice Education, the Hospital provides support for PGY2s to undertake a remote term as part of the Post-Graduate Prevocational Placement Program (PGPPP).

For more information and application forms please see the resident  page.

OR contact: Dr Paul Helliwell, Consultant, Emergency Department through Switchboard on +61 8 8951 7777

Registrars/Hospital Medical Officers

There are over 45 Registrar and Senior Hospital Medical Officer positions available in General Medicine, Renal Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Anaesthetics, ICU, Emergency Medicine, Retrieval Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Several positions are filled by interstate rotations from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, The Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Women's and Children's Hospital , Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, the SA Ophthalmology Training Program and Townsville Hospital.

Posts are accredited for the basic RACGP Training Program, Advanced rural skills in Emergency Medicine, DRANZCOG, Rural Surgical Training program of the RACS, the FRANZCOG, the FRACP (Paediatrics and Adult Medicine), FACEM, FJFICM, and the NTGPE Prevocational General Practice Placements Program (PGPPP).

For more information and application forms please see the registrar  page.

OR contact: Dr Paul Helliwell, Consultant, Emergency Department through Switchboard on +61 8 8951 7777