Medical

Our Medical Education Unit provides excellent continuous postgraduate medical education to further enhance the quality of patient care we provide.

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Pre-vocational education

We seek to use the most effective methods available and evaluates the quality of our educational programs. Encouraging continuous education and development through accepted learning principles and up-to-date educational tools.

The unit provides focus for pre-vocational education through the following:
  • coordination
  • educational resource
  • development and delivery
  • research and evaluation
  • support
  • assessment and credentialing
  • communication
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9594 3743
Facsimile: +61 3 9594 2042
Email:

mededucation@southernhealth.org.au


Access to simulation education

The Southern Health Simulation and Skills Centre has developed an international reputation for the quality of its simulation-based training for healthcare individuals and teams. The centre focusses on medical and technical skills acquisition and training.

The centre provides a number of courses to a broad range of health professionals including:
  • junior and senior resident medical staff
  • emergency department nurses/medical staff
  • anaesthetic nurses/medical staff
  • midwives and obstetric medical staff
  • undergraduate medical students
  • undergraduate nurses
  • international medical graduates
  • paramedics
  • rural GP anaesthetists and anaesthetic or recovery staff

Vocational education

Trainees from recognised college training programs are well supported by our Directors of Vocational Training and specialised local programs.  These trainees support the diversity of training options at Southern Health.

Registrar training opportunities

Opportunities for registrar training exist in: 

  • addiction medicine
  • anaesthetics
  • andrology
  • cardiology
  • cardiothoracic surgery
  • clinical nutrition
  • colorectal surgery
  • dermatology
  • emergency medicine
  • endocrinology/ diabetes
  • ENT
  • gastroenterology
  • general medicine 
  • general surgery
  • genetics
  • geriatric medicine
  • gynaeoncology
  • haematology
  • infectious diseases
  • intensive care
  • medical microbiology
  • neonatal
  • neurology/stroke
  • neurosurgery
  • obstetrics and gynaecology
  • oncology
  • ophthalmology
  • oral and maxillofacial surgery
  • orthopaedics
  • paediatrics
  • palliative care
  • pathology
  • plastic surgery
  • psychiatry
  • rehabilitation
  • renal (nephrology)
  • respiratory medicine
  • rheumatology
  • urology
  • vascular surgery

Support

Our Medical Workforce Unit facilitates flexible employment opportunities (including job share and part time roles). We also cater to your career and training requirements through our flexible rotation and rostering processes.
Junior medical staff recruitment
Find out more about Junior medical staff positions here at Southern Health.