Box Hill Hospital

Maroondah Hospital

Angliss Hospital

The Northern Hospital

Bendigo Health

Box Hill Hospital is a large metropolitan hospital.

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Sayed Hassen

Surgical A Box Hill

This unit provides specialist endocrine services as well as general and bariatric surgery at Box Hill Hospital. Boxhill has a long and distinguished history of Bariatric surgery. The surgeons have a large part of their practice dedicated to this work. Expect a broad exposure to bariatric surgery. Mr Peter Gtrossberg is part of the Melbourne Hernia group, so a large experience of laparoscopic hernia surgery can be gained.

Head of unit: Mr Peter Grossberg

Consultants: Mr Patrick Moore, Mr Steve Manolas, Mr Harry Frydenberg

Junior staff: Registrar, intern

Surgical B Box Hill

This is the specialist colorectal unit at Box Hill Hospital. The colorectal unit is on call permanently for colorectal emergencies and as such does not participate in the general surgery roster. The registrar is not expected to be on call for the unit and will be on call for general surgery covering the other surgical units.

Head of unit: Mr Frank Chen

Consultants: Mr Jamie Keck, Mr Rod Woods, Mr Michael Johnston, Mr Malcolm Steel

Junior staff: Fellow, registrar, intern

Surgical C Box Hill

Head of unit: Mr Richard Cade

Consultants: Mr Simon Banting, Mr Sayed Hassen, Mr Sean Mackay

Junior staff: Fellow, registrar, intern

Surgical D Box Hill

Head of unit:

Consultants: Mr Timothy Gale, Miss Suzanne Moore

Junior staff: Registrar, intern

Vascular Box Hill

The vascular unit has the capacity to manage the spectrum of vascular surgical disease.

Head of unit: Mr Gary Fell

Consultants: Prof Michael Grigg, Mr Barry Beiles, Mr Mark Lovelock, Mr Mark Westcott and Miss Celia Clifford

Junior staff: Two registrars (vascular trainee and general trainee), resident

Thoracic Box Hill

The thoracic unit provides specialist care of thoracic surgical conditions and works closely with the respiratory medicine unit at Box Hill. The workload is light and therefore this unit is combined with the surgical C unit. Therefore the junior staff are shared between the two units.

Head of unit: Professor Peter Clarke

Consultants: Mr Andrew Barling, Mr Siven Seevanayagam, Mr Alex Rosalion

Junior staff: Registrar, resident

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Maroondah Hospital is an outer metropolitan hospital in the east of Melbourne.
Three registrars rotate from Box Hill Hospital. Each unit is on for receiving one day in three but each general registrar is on one in four days and weekends. The fourth day/weekend is covered by a BST on the plastics/Urology roster. There is no night surgical registrar. After hours the general surgical registrar also covers plastics and urology.

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Afif Hadj

Surgery 1

This is a general surgical unit.

Head of unit: Mr Afif Hadj

Consultants: Mr Harley Baxter, Mr Robert Pucius

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Surgery 2

This is a general surgical unit.

Head of unit: Mr David Stoney

Consultants: Mr Anthony Cass, Mr Nikolas Kosanovic

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Surgery 3

This is a general surgical unit.

Head of unit: Mr Anton Iseli

Consultants: Mr Boon Hong, Mr Ong Hii

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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Angliss Hospital is situated. It does not have a dedicated intensive care unit which limits the nature of surgery undertaken at the Angliss Hospital.
There are two surgical units with a BST and intern on the second unit. There is no overnight on call committment for the registrar, however weekend cover is one in three.

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Sayed Hassen

Surgery 1

This is a general surgical unit. Miss Clifford is a specialist vascular surgeon providing straightforward vascular services at Angliss Hospital.

Head of unit: Mr Sayed Hassen

Consultants: Mr David Merenstein, Mr Anthony Cass, Mr Steve Cheng, Mr Neil Strugnell, Miss Celia Clifford

Junior staff: Registrar (AST), 1 resident

Surgery 2

This unit provides specialist surgical care for breast and skin and soft tissue cancers.

Head of unit: Mr Frank Chen

Consultants: Mr Ong Hii, Mr Nikolas Kosanovic, Mr Adam Skidmore, Mr Clem Smith, Mr Malcolm Steel

Junior staff: Registrar (BST), 1 resident

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A major metropolitan hospitalinitially established on the outskirts of suburban Melbourne has now been surrounded by rapid urban development. The emergency department is the busiest in Victoria. On-call here exposes the trainee to a wide range of general and paediatric surgery. Importantly in such a busy hospital, there is an overnight surgical registrar. This job is manned by a Basic Sugical trainee. This allows the unit registrars to be rested in order to gain more from the next days training.

Five registrars are rotated to the Northern Hospital with two of these being Eastern Health trainees, one from St Vincent's and two from the Austin.

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr David Butterfield

General Surgery 1 / Paediatric Surgery

The Surgery 1 Unit also encompasses paediatric surgery. The majority of the workload is a range of general surgery. Mr Tom Sweeney is an upper gastro-intestinal surgeon so ther is a wide exposure to the full range of upper GI surgery. Whipples and oesophageal resections are all performed on site. Liver resctions are probably the only upper GI / HPB operation referred to the Austin Hospital.
The paediatric surgery commitment involves a whole day list with Ms Wheatley every second week. During working hours the Surg 1 registrar is also on-call for acute paediatric surgical emergencies.

Head of unit: Mr Boon Hong

Consultants: (General) Mr Tom Sweeney, Mr Erik Koppert, (Paediatric) Ms Jeniffer Wheatley, Mr Alex Auldist, Mr Joe Cremeri, Ms Gwen Wilson

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

General Surgery 2

The Professorial / Colorectal Unit

Head of unit: Professor Hamish Ewing

Consultants: Mr Andrew Bui, Ms Wanda Stelmach, Mr Devan Gya

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

General Surgery 3

Endocrine / General

Head of unit: Mr Steve Manolas

Consultants: Mr Patrick Moore, Mr Ernest Lim

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

General Surgery 4

Head of unit: Mr

Consultants: Mr Trevor McQuillan, Mr Strugnell

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

Surgery 5 (Vascular/Thoracic)

The vascular unit shares a registrar and intern with the thoracic unit.

Head of unit: Mr

Consultants: (Vascular) Mr Tony Chan, Mr Neill Roberts, (Thoracic) Mr Seven Seevanayagam

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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Surgery 2

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Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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