Training
Training SitesTAS - Launceston General Hospital
Notes
300 bed teaching hospital incorporating the University of Tasmania’s
northern clinical school in a town including the University of Tasmania’s
northern campus and the Australian Maritime College in an excellent educational,
cultural and recreational environment.
Training Positions
| Number of Training Positions: |
3 |
| Duration of Accredited Advanced Training: |
3 |
| Date of Most Recent Survey: |
2002 |
| Date of Next Survey: |
unknown |
Description of Service
Organisation
| Staff: |
1 fulltime director, 4 staff specialists,
5 VMO consultants |
| Units: |
3 general internal medicine units (IM) each of
3 consultants, a registrar, resident and intern |
IM Demographics
| IM Beds: |
75 beds (78% of all Department of Medicine
beds) |
| IM Inpatient Activity: |
2500 separations per annum |
| IM Outpatient Clinics: |
3000 attendances per annum |
| IM Specialty Interests / Special Units: |
Acute stroke unit, geriatric medicine, rehabilitation,
rotation through subspecialty units as below. |
Formal Training
| Lectures: |
Periodic Specialist tutorials |
| Journal Club: |
Weekly |
| Grand Rounds: |
Weekly |
| Consult Rounds: |
2 per week, daily informal contact, post-take
rounds, daily morning report |
| Specialty Rotations: |
3-6 month negotiable rotations in: renal medicine,
cardiology, endocrinology, respiratory medicine, neurology, haematology/oncology,
gastroenterology. Trainees participate in general medicine and relevant
subspecialty outpatient clinics |
| Research: |
Participation in Quality Improvement, Evidence
Based Medicine and health services research encouraged. Clifford Craig
Medical Research Trust on site. |
| Quality Improvement: |
Regular Mortality and Morbidity meetings, combined
morning meetings weekdays |
Trainee Responsibilities in IM
| Coverage Roster: |
1 in 8 (or less frequent) evenings
on call, no night roster. Some weekend cover. |
| Workload in Medicine Units: |
2 formal ward rounds (multiple consultants) weekly,
daily otherwise, 1 outpatient clinic |
| Teaching Responsibilities |
Junior medical staff, medical students, basic trainees |
| Research/presentations: |
5 x clinical audits per year, ad hoc grand round
presentations.
Multi-centre clinical trials. |
Infrastructure
| Library: |
Yes, good internet support (6 stations) |
| Personal email: |
Yes |
| Facilities: |
Registrar room, security lockers 3 computers with
internet access |
| Information Technology: |
3 computer stations per ward |
| Director Physician Training: |
Yes |
Contact
Head of Unit
Assoc. Prof. R. Fassett,
Director of Medicine
Phone: (03) 6348 7190
Fax: (03) 63487577
Email: rob.fassett@dhhs.tas.gov.au
Director of General Medicine
Dr Alasdair MacDonald
Phone: (03) 6348 7578
Fax: (03) 6348 7577
Email: macmed@tassie.net.au
Hospital / Health Service Website
Launceston Hospital website - www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/agency/lgh
Medical Careers in Tas - www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/jobsandcareers/doctors
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