Rotations
Austin Health offers rotations at various metropolitan and regional hospitals.
Rotations are allocated at the end of each year for the coming twelve months and are then communicated to trainess as soon as rosters are confirmed. You will be given an oppurtunity to rank your preferences however you must understand that not everyone can be given their first preferences.
Below you will find details of each hospital affiliated with advanced training at Austin Health and information related to each rotation offered. Links to the hospitals internet homepage are provided.
Hospitals
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The Austin Hospital
The Austin Hospital is
Supervisor of advanced training: Mr
General Surgery 1
GS1 is the specialist colorectal unit at
There is one dedicated surgical colonoscopy list per week and the unit also runs an anorectal ultrasound and physiology lab.
Head of unit: Mr
Consultants: Mr
Junior staff: Fellow, registrar, 2 interns
Department of Surgery
The DOS unit
Head of unit: Mr
Consultants: Mr
Junior staff: Fellow or registrar, 2 interns
General Surgery 3
GS3 is
Head of unit: Associate Professor
Consultants: Mr
Junior staff: Fellow, registrar, 2 interns
The Northern Hospital
A major metropolitan hospital initially 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 Surgical 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 one of these being a St Vincent's trainee, two from the Austin and two from Eastern Health.
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 gastrointestinal surgeon so there is a wide exposure to the full range of upper GI surgery. Whipples and oesophageal resections are performed on site. Liver resections 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 Boon Hong, Mr Tom Sweeney, Mr Erik Koppert, (Paediatric) Ms Jennifer 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 David Butterfield
Consultants: Mr Trevor McQuillan, Mr Neill Strugnell
Junior staff: Registrar, 1 resident
Surgery 5 (Vascular/Thoracic)
The vascular unit shares a registrar and intern with the thoracic unit.
Head of unit: Mr Neill Roberts
Consultants: (Vascular) Mr Tony Chan, Mr Neill Roberts, (Thoracic) Mr Seven Seevanayagam, Mr Michael Rowland
Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern