- The major trauma centre for northern Queensland and all medical and surgical specialties are represented. It provides healthcare across the entire North Queensland region, with patients from as far as Mount Isa and Cape York being airlifted or transported to the hospital on a daily basis.
- Located in far northeast QLD, this regional coastal city has approximately 201,433 residents
- Accommodation to be booked and return domestic flights organised,
Details
A Northern QLD hospital requires a Senior Medical Officer in General Practice from 20/12/2024 to 14/01/2025.
SHIFTS:
20/12/2024-09/01/2025 SMO ED with AST
Rostered by need. 10-hour shifts (includes weekdays and weekends)
On-call: 1:2 or 1:3
31/12/2024 – 14/01/2025 SMO with AST Anaesthetics
Rostered by need. 10-hour shifts (includes weekdays and weekends)
On-call: 1:2 or 1:3
Training Requirements
• FRACGP/FRACRRM
• Rural experience
• ALS certificate
• DRANZCOG, JCCA, or ACEM AST
Rostering:
Hospital is staffed by 5.5 FTE SMO and 1.0 FTE Medical Superintendent. 2.5 FTE PHO. 1.0 FTE Intern.
Typical roster pattern is
• Monday – Friday:
o WARD – 1 SMO day shift, 1 intern day shift
o ED – 1 SMO day shift, 1 PHO late shift, 1 SMO late shift.
o Afterhours ED SMO is oncall for facility with no doctor on site. There are always two SMO oncall even when on bypass
• Saturday/Sunday/Public Holiday: SMO day shift, 1 PHO day shift – covers ward and ED, SMO on late shift with oncall from 23:00 -07:00.
Services:
28 bed inpatient ward, including 1 antenatal assessment room and 1 birth suite. Usual occupancy is 60-70%, with on average half a dozen long stay stable patients awaiting nursing home placement.
4 bed emergency department with average of 22 presentations in 24 hours. Variable complexity but mostly triaged as category 3-4.
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