General
Fellows clinical work includes both in-hours and after-hours shifts. Protected hours for fellow teaching provide ample opportunity to pursue health informatics, education, audit and research activities. Our department also participates in regular simulation programs with the hospital simulation service for systems testing, quality improvement and education (https://www.thewomens.org.au/health-professionals/gandel-simulation-service). Fellows will receive training in a wide variety of skills including difficult neuraxial techniques, obstetric haemorrhage management, cardiac disease in pregnancy and obstetric airway management.
Clinical
Fellowship will focus on high-risk obstetrics & maternal medicine, gynae-oncology and peri-operative medicine. The Women’s provides, among other services, abortion and contraception; assisted reproduction and women's emergency care. Fellows will be involved in multi-disciplinary meetings for care of high-risk patients, the complex care unit and the acute pain service. We offer regular complex caesarean section lists and antenatal anaesthetic assessment clinics exclusively to fellows during their term.
Hospital
The Royal Women’s Hospital is one of the oldest obstetric hospitals in the world, opened in 1856. It is co-located in the Parkville precinct with the Royal Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Children’s Hospitals. The Women’s serves an annual cohort of 80,000 patients, delivering more than 8,000 babies. The Women’s is the tertiary referral centre for high risk obstetric patients in Melbourne and further afield in the state of Victoria and Australia-wide. The Parkville Precinct is located close to the city centre of Melbourne with easy access to major transport hubs and visitor attractions.
