Trainee Positions At Northern Hospital

Northern Hospital
185 Cooper Street, Epping
VIC, 3076
Australia

Contact Details

A/Prof Doug Crompton
douglas.crompton@unimelb.edu.au
Phone : 84052335
www :

Positions

Training Positions : 2
Elective Training Positions : 0
Fellowships : 0

Core Position Descriptions
The Northern Neurology registrars have a busy and varied clinical role including inpatient care of neurology and stroke patients, general and subspecialty neurology clinics, assessing ED and ward referrals, EEG reporting, and EMG clinics, all with close support and guidance from the friendly and collegial Consultant team.

The Neurology junior doctor team also includes an Advanced Trainee in General Medicine and 2 neurology/stroke residents.

Core trainees and our General Medicine Advanced trainee rotate through the 2 roles of inpatient Neurology, inpatient Stroke and Ward Consults. Each of these rotations involves participation in 2 outpatient clinics as follows: Neurology rotation: General Neurology (Crompton / Evans) and Epilepsy clinics (Crompton / Spiegel) Stroke rotation: Headache (Rosenfeld; includes migraine botox) and Neuro-immunology (Ligtermoet); Consults: Movement disorders (Kopanidis) and Motor Neuron disease (Chen, Evans). Occasional attendance at neurosurgery and paediatric neurology clinics are also available if time allows.

The Neurology Registrar rostered to Stroke attends all code stroke emergencies when on site, helping to inform the decision to thrombolyze / clot retrieve (or not) patients presenting with acute stroke symptoms. In addition, they will assess patients referred from ED, ICU, medicine, surgery, obstetrics and psychiatry services, with full support from the duty Consultant.

In addition, the Registrars attend and present cases at several meetings including Neurovascular (Tuesday 8am), Neuro-radiology (Wednesday, 12 noon) and Academic Neurology (Thursday 12 noon), in addition to medical grand rounds (2 per year). Teaching tutorials on core clinical topics are offered for HMOs and registrars on a Thursday am (11.30am).

The Registrars are supported to enable full attendance at the state-wide (Thursday am) training in addition to national Brain School on a Wednesday pm.

In addition, the Trainees will be encouraged to offer help and guidance to the Neurology residents, and to support medical student learning. Diverse opportunities to participate in clinical audit and clinical research will be offered.

Out of hours on call commitments will be 1-2 nights per week (non-resident), in addition to 1 in 4 weekends. A neurology consultant will always be on call together with the Registrar. Code stroke calls out of hours go directly to the consultants in order to optimise door to needle / DIDO times.

Elective Position Descriptions
Two core training positions are currently offered. The elective position in general neurology would be available only in the unlikely event that the position is not filled with a core trainee. In that event the Elective (with a general neurology focus) would be as for the Core Position.

Hospital Information

The Northern Hospital, the acute clinical site of Northern Health, is a busy, energetic, friendly and rapidly expanding hospital, currently with 550 beds. A new hospital tower, and inpatient psychiatry block have recently been opened, with a further $700-800 million construction program underway. Neurology inpatients are located in a state of the art 34 bed Neurology and Stroke new ward opened in 2021.

Our hospital serves a population of around 750,000 people in Melbourne's northern suburbs, and we have the busiest emergency department in Victoria. Northern Health provides the innovative state-wide Victorian Virtual Emergency Department. Our population is culturally diverse and many languages are spoken. Clinical staff are brilliantly supported by our excellent trans-cultural and language service (TALS). All this contributes to the neurology Registrar having a very wide exposure to a diverse range of general and subspecialty neurology problems.

Department Beds :
Flexible- typically 10-25 inpatients between neurology and stroke

Department Clinics
Multiple general neurology clinics

Department Specialty Clinics
Movement disorder, stroke prevention, epilepsy, first seizure, headache (including botox), MS, EMG/NCS, motor neurone disease (twice monthly, at Bundoora Extended Care Centre).

Department Meetings
Neurovascular meeting (With vascular surgery) Tuesdays 8am
Neurology / Stroke MDT meeting Tuesday 9am
Neuroradiology meeting (Wednesday 12 noon)
General Medicine Grand Round (optional) Thursday 8am
Neurology junior doctor Tutorial (Thursday 11.30am)
Neurology Academic meeting (Thursday 12 noon)
Neurology / Stroke MDT meeting (Friday 9 am)

Department Staff
A/Prof Doug Crompton (Head of Neurology, Special interests: Epilepsy, Neurogenetics)
Dr Matthew Ligtermoet (Special interests: Neuro-immunology, Motor Neuron disease)
Dr Matthew Evans (Special Interests: Peripheral nervous system disorders, EMG)
Dr Mei Ngun (Special interest: Stroke medicine)
Dr Paul Kopanidis (Special interest: Movement disorders)
Dr Helen Gardner (Special interest: Neurophysiology)
Dr Moksh Sethi (Special interest Epilepsy, EEG)
Dr Hannah Rosenfeld (Special interests: Headache, Neuroimmunology)
Dr Jessie Chen (Special interest: Motor Neuron disease)
Dr Joseph Wong (Special interest: Stroke Medicine)
Dr Chloe Spiegel (Special interests: Epilepsy, Movement disorders)
Dr Geraldine Ng (Special interest: General Neurology))
Dr Felix Ng (special interest: Neurophysiology)
Anne Rodda (Stroke Nurse Practitioner)
Liz Mackey (Stroke Nurse Practitioner)
Justine Westlake (Senior EEG scientist)
Kasia Dutka (EEG scientist)
Melissa Sciberras (Admin support)

Drs Steven Ng and Marco Fedi also contribute to out of hours on call.

Junior Staff Positions In Neurology
Two Neurology registrar core trainees One Neurology / Stroke Registrar (Advanced trainee in General Medicine) Three Neurology/Stroke HMOs

Trainee Responsibilities
Please see Description of Core Position.

Selection Criteria
As per ANZAN guidelines, available at:

http://www.anzan.org.au/neurologytraining/recruitmentoftrainees.asp

Philosophy Of Training
We aim to provide an inspiring apprenticeship in Neurology, in a friendly, energetic and supportive environment. Northern Health Values are Safe, Kind and Together.

Neurology Training In State
Weekly state-based advanced trainee lectures and monthly National Brain School lectures.

Other Information