2 jobs found in tennant creek

Do you want to practice high acuity medicine, in a young population, as part of a small dynamic team?    80% of your patients will be Indigenous, there are no inpatient teams and you are 500km from the nearest CT scanner! Tennant Creek is a town of 5000, 500km north of Alice Springs in the vast Northern Territory outback. Tennant Creek hospital is a 20 bed rural hospital with a modern emergency department.  We have 14000 Emergency presentations per year, and 6600 admissions per year reflecting the high acuity of presentations. A special skills position in Rural and Remote medicine is available which has 6 months accreditation as a Category A Special Skills post for ACEM training. We are happy to take trainees on 3 or 6 month rotations.  We can also combine the rotation with Alice Springs Hospital Emergency Department rotations. The medicine is incredibly interesting. Rheumatic heart disease, bronchiectasis, chronic liver disease, renal disease, and diabetes are all...

Blended Supervision Pilot – ACEM Accredited for Core ED time - Tennant Creek Hospital – Pilot project available for 6 month rotation in 2025   Do you want to practice high acuity medicine, in a young population, as part of a small dynamic team?    80% of your patients will be Indigenous, there are no inpatient teams and you are 500km from the nearest CT scanner!   Tennant Creek is a town of 5000, 500km north of Alice Springs in the vast Northern Territory outback. Tennant Creek hospital is a 20 bed rural hospital with a modern emergency department.  We have 14000 Emergency presentations per year, and 6600 admissions per year reflecting the high acuity of presentations.   A Core ED 6 months accredited term is being trialled as part of a blended supervision project.  This means that you will be supervised on a daily basis by the FACRRMs on the ground in Tennant Creek – as well as receive regular remote supervision from the DEMTs in Alice Springs....