Fellowships

Length and Income

12 months (6 months considered), AU$50,000

Institutions

Deakin University
St John of God Hospital
University Hospital, Geelong
Epworth Geelong

Education Goals & Characteristics

The Fellowship is a clinically-based research Fellowship with a focus on shoulder and upper limb surgery covering arthroscopy, reconstruction and arthroplasty. This includes a significant level of sports and related injuries and orthopaedic trauma.

Fellowship Outline

The Fellowship is clinically based on a linked research component. The clinical component is supported by the active orthopaedic surgeons in Geelong and co-ordinated by Professor Richard Page. It is a mixture of public and private orthopaedics, to provide a full spectrum of clinical and surgical experience.

There are four key clinical and surgical opportunities that Fellows can participate in within the programme. These are arthroplasty, arthroscopy, upper limb sports orthopaedics, reconstructive orthopaedics and orthopaedic trauma.

The arthroplasty experience includes a full range of upper limb arthroplasty exposure. The arthroscopy and sports orthopaedics includes full exposure to shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand surgery.

Orthopaedic reconstruction may include opportunities in shoulder, upper limb and hand surgery.

Trauma surgery experience can be provided in association with University Hospital Geelong, the major regional trauma referral centre. There is an orthopaedic on-call roster that involves both registrars and consultant orthopaedic surgeons with close, direct supervision by the orthopaedic consultant surgeon on call. This is serviced by daily trauma lists, as well as emergency “out of hours” operating theatres. There is potential for a Fellow with the appropriate experience and interest to participate in this.

The Barwon Centre for Orthopaedic Research & Education (B-CORE) of which Professor Richard Page is the Director will support the research component. There is opportunity to both initiate, and complete research projects that are currently under various stages of investigation. Time is dedicated in the weekly programme for research, with an expectation that at least one major paper will be completed in each six-month period.

Associations and Links

The Fellowship is constructed around the three major hospitals in Geelong; University Hospital Geelong (UHG), St John of God Hospital Geelong and Epworth Geelong. University Hospital Geelong is a Clinical School and primary University Hospital of Deakin University, which commenced student intake in 2008.

B-CORE, a growing orthopaedic research institution, is a component of this and currently employs a research co-ordinator and a data manager at UHG to assist in a wide variety of current orthopaedic research activities. In addition, there is a Post-Graduate Research Fellow and higher degree students supervised under B-CORE.

There is potential for collaboration with the Institute for Frontier Materials and The School of Medicine, both at Deakin University, which have extensive materials and basic science research laboratories respectively in Geelong. Currently there is shared supervision of higher degree students within the Faculty of Health.

Fellowship Conditions

The preferred duration of the Fellowship is for twelve months and would require the successful candidate to live locally in the Geelong region, although depending on demand and interest, shorter periods will be considered. The salary is funded up to AU$50,000 per annum, supported by De Puy Synthes Australia (Johnson & Johnson). It may include a travel stipend to a national conference to present research results generated within the period in Geelong.

Preference is given to post-fellowship candidates, looking at sub-speciality interest and experience. Assistance may be provided in identifying accommodation. Leave is four weeks annual leave and two weeks conference leave per annum. The Fellow would need to be registrable as a medical practitioner in the State of Victoria.

Duties include, but are not limited to, assisting in the private surgical setting, participating in orthopaedic clinics at University Hospital Geelong as well as running orthopaedic research clinical review clinics and participating in all the Unit clinical and academic meetings. Opportunities may exist for periodic public operating lists as part of the surgical experience.

Applications

Applications and expressions of interest should be sent with an up-to-date curriculum vitae and names, addresses and phone numbers of three referees to;

Professor Richard Page
Professor of Orthopaedics
Fellowship Co-ordinator
Suite 7, Level 2, St. John of God Hospital,
83 Myers Street, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
Email: rpageadmin@geelongortho.com.au
Phone: +61 (0) 3 5222 5777
Fax: +61 (0) 3 5229 1283

Further Information

https://geelongorthopaedicsgroup.com.au/fellowships/