General
This full time position combines clinical experience of both obstetric and gynaecology anaesthesia and women’s health at a regional tertiary hospital. There will also be an opportunity to actively be involved in acute and chronic pain management. Fellows are encouraged to participate in all activities of the department including supervision of junior ANZCA trainees, teaching, audit and research.
An average of two sessions per week will be allocated as non-clinical duties for continuing medical education, audit, teaching and research work. Fellows will also attend departmental meetings where new referrals are discussed and interesting or complex cases are reviewed.
Clinical
The post will be full time, including some regular evening shifts. The fellow will also have the opportunity to work weekends as the on-call consultant (with consultant anaesthetist backup), providing level 1-4 supervision as required of the resident ANZCA trainees.
Hospital
National Women’s Health provides both secondary and tertiary obstetric and gynaecological services as well as housing a regional gynae-oncology centre and a regional maternofetal medicine unit. The delivery unit handles over 7,000 deliveries each year with around a third of these born by caesarean section. Over 50% of our parturients receive epidural analgesia.
National Women’s Health is part of Auckland City Hospital, with on-site neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, interventional radiology and Starship Children’s Hospital. Some outpatient and short stay surgery services are delivered on the Greenlane Hospital site 5km away.
