Why Austin Health
Overview
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research in the northeast of Melbourne. During 2009-2010, a record 95,655 inpatients and 160,000 outpatients were treated by over 7,986 staff. Austin Health provides high quality patient care to the community and veterans, and has achieved national and international recognition in many fields.
Many statewide services are located at Austin Health, including the Victorian Liver Transplant Service, the Victorian Respiratory Support Services, the Victorian Spinal Cord Service and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
Our values guide our behaviour at Austin Health. Our values of integrity, accountability, respect and excellence guide our interactions with each other and with our patients.
Austin Health Values:
Integrity - we exercise honesty, candour and sincerity
Accountability - we are transparent, responsible and answerable
Respect - we treat others with dignity, consideration, equality and value
Excellence - we continually strive for excellence
Austin Health comprises Austin Hospital, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.
Medical Staff at Austin Health
Austin Health and Northern Health accepted 103 interns into the training program in 2011. From 2012 onwards, Austin Health will be recruiting our interns separately from Northern Health, and anticipate around 55 positions for interns will be available.
Austin Health provides exceptional support to all its junior medical staff, particularly at intern level, with protected training time provided each week at intern training sessions conducted through the Medical Education Unit. We also have a "buddy" system in place (coordinated by your more senior colleagues) to make the transition from student to working doctor less stressful. The buddies act as another resource in a large tertiary hospital to answer questions and to provide support in what can be a daunting year.
Austin Health offered the inaugural intern placement at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine for the first time in 2010. This has proved to be a highly sought after rotation, and one which we expect to continue into the future. Austin Health also offers rotations in Cardiac Surgery, Stroke, General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Urology, General Surgery, Orthopaedic and ENT surgery and Aged Care, as well as other rotations. Potential additions in 2012 include an additional ENT rotation, Radiology and Anaesthetics.
